Punching a hole through my university's firewall...

[Shining Arcanine]

Well, I thought that I had a connection to my university's VPN working recently, but it was a mistake because the university just decided to allow SSH traffic to a local server after I complained the firewall was keeping me from connecting to the server because I could not connect to the VPN on my laptop.

Anyway, I want to upload a 1.2GB tar.lzma file from my university to my home computer so I can do backups without physically being at home. I can SSH into my university's unix server. From there, I can SSH into my home computer. I cannot SSH into my home computer directly. My university's unix server gives me a 20MB quota, so I cannot scp it to the unix server and then scp it to my home computer. I am sure that there is some way of doing tunnelling through SSH that will allow me to do this.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how this would be done?

[msalerno]

What about setting up a webserver at home and uploading your files that way?

Or setup an ssh tunnel on your universities unix server.
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[Shining Arcanine]

[XavierMiller]

For your dynamic IP, you can use services like http://www.dyndns.com/
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[Shining Arcanine]

Thanks.

I managed to fix the VPN connection to make it work (finally). My university's firewall will redirect Linux users to a login page that will allow them to do basic web browsing (and now apparently ssh to a university server). Anything more requires the VPN. For anyone interested, here is how I got things to work.

I have been using the following command from the pptp client site has a how to for Gentoo:

http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-gentoo.phtml

I followed the guide, but it would not work, so I did the following: