I think this maybe way off topic so if anyone knows of a good
discussion forum for this topic please advise.

Anyway ...

I managed to install MobaSSH (unable to get OpenSSH to work) on my
home server and tested ok on my local LAN.  The port translation
worked well.  This is very cool.

I originally configured it to operate on port 80 as I still need port
443 to VNC into the server at home (as I am doing all this from work
and needed the continued access)

However, I could not connect from work to the home ssh server on port
80 (I had reconfigured apache away from this port so no conflict
here).  So  then I tried to configure it with port 443 (which I know
will conflict with vnc) and as expected the service would not start.
So I went to reconfig the VNC server with the default of 5900 as was
immediately locked out from doing any further testing, doh.

My question is :-

Can my network administrator stop other traffic (other than http
requests)  from using port 80 and 443.

My results indicate that he can as I could NOT ssh on port 80 and when
I try to use port 443 (even thou I know the service is not running) it
immediately reports "Network Error: Connection refused".  The response
seems too quick for it to have actually tried the connection and
appears to be getting blocked locally.

The strange thing is, I know I can get out on 443 with VNC (but not
port 80 as I have tried this) so I guess VNC traffic looks like
http(s) traffic.

So it looks like I am back to dynamically reconfiguring the modem
using software control which is sad as ssh looked so promising.

I conceptually think of it as using port 80 via apache cgi scripts as
a control link and 443 for data connection to which ever
server/service I want to use at the time.

Thanks for all the suggestions and support.

Cheers Justin
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