castanyes blaves

You can create an ssh tunnel to a remote system and use the remote system as a proxy.

Local system: Connect to remote system using ssh and dynamic port forwarding.

ssh -D port-number login-id@remote-node

Example:

ssh -D 9999 user1@node6.mega-corp.com

This establishes a connection to the remote node and configures traffic on local port 9999 to be forwarded to the remote system which acts as a proxy and fulfill the network request.

Firefox Configuration:

* Select "Edit" + "Preferences..."

* Select "Network Configuration"

* Select "Manual Proxy Configuration"

* Select "SOCKS V4"

* Set entries:

o Socks Host: localhost

o Port: 9999

Remote system: The service sshd must be running.

Browser requests will be forwarded to local port 9999 through ssh to the remote node which will fulfill the request. I have tried this for http web request as well as e-mail POP3 inbound mail and SMTP outbound mail and it works!

posted by avilella  # 8:47 AM