Shell and VPN providers for testing purposes

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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.
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