Tunneling SSH Jun 15, 2007
(I’m in NYC working for Red Hat right now and am insanely busy. I’m having a great time and will describe everything in my blog in the near future).
Finally figured out ssh tunneling.
- Run your own ssh server (lets call it myserver.com)
On the client side, run ssh -N -D 8000 myserver.com -N means dont run a program, eg. bash -D is the local port ssh will listen on
Configure Firefox SOCKS PROXY (not a HTTP PROXY) to point to localhost:8000. Make sure its using Socks4 and you are not setting the http or other proxy fields (took me a while to figure that one out). Since this setting is far into the options settings, download an extension (addons.mozilla.org) to add a button or toolbar to control it.
Once everything is setup, all your web traffic should be tunneled over ssh. Modify the proxy settings for other programs as necessary.