Shell and VPN providers for testing purposes

[kriggins at infosecramblings.com (Kevin Riggins)]

Maybe not exactly what you are looking for, but a VPS with OpenVPN
should get you modt of what you are looking for. Wouldn't seperate the
VPN and shell function, but would meet all the other requirements.

VPS providers are everwhere and since you don't need a lot of
horespower or disk, you should be able to get something fairly
inexpensive.

Sorry, I don't have a specific recommendation.

Kevin

On 4/30/10, Professor Thread <professorthread at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I am developing certain tools that use raw sockets to produce arbitrary tcp
> packets. The thing is that the place where I work from, has strict firewall
> policies and I can't do proper testing of the tools or even access a SVN
> repo.
>
> Basically I need this:
>
> 1. A remote shell with root access so I can run apps with privileges. The
> system should have a default accept firewall policy, as I also need to set
> different instances of netcat and tcpdump.
>
> 2. A way to bypass firewall issues like SVN access or raw packet egress
> traffic. Something like a VPN service I can use under linux..
>
> So my question is. Where can I hire those services? Are they affordable? (i
> don't have any cpu, mem or disk requirements at all). Ideally the VPN
> provider and the remote shell provider should be different so I can do
> inter-network testing. It would be great if providers where european (as I
> like in europe) but it's ok if you only know US providers.
>
> Thank you very much for your help.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Elisabeth.