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Abstract

Disclosed is a tunneling system, method and computer program product. The system includes a service publishing/tunneling server coupled to a wide-area network; and a service proxy, coupled to one or more computer systems, for implementing one or more service proxy functions; wherein a TCP service for the one or more client computer systems is available from the server through the service proxy. The method includes connecting a service proxy to a service publishing/tunneling server, wherein the server is coupled to a wide-area network and the service proxy is coupled to one or more computer systems for implementing one or more service proxy functions;sending, from the proxy, publishing information for a particular service to the server; c) receiving a service key for the particular service from the server; and d) using the service key to provide the particular service to the one or more client computer systems from the server through the service proxy. A computer program product including a computer readable medium carrying program instructions for tunneling TCP services when executed using two or more computing systems each coupled to a global area network, the executed program instructions executing a method, the method including connecting a service proxy to a service publishing/tunneling server, wherein the server is coupled to a wide-area network and the service proxy is coupled to one or more computer systems for implementing one or more service proxy functions; sending, from the proxy, publishing information for a particular service to the server; receiving a service key for the particular service from the server; and using the service key to provide the particular service to the one or more client computer systems from the server through the service proxy.

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