Re: port forwarding with ssh on linux

From: samjack (nospam_at_device.null)
Date: 10/27/03 

Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 19:20:57 -0600

Try using the -D portnumber option to do dynamic port forwarding emulating
Socks proxy.
Then just point your web browser at the port declaring it a socks proxy
server.

ssh -l username -D 8000 cyberpass.net

"ed" <coo_t2-NO-LIKE-SPAM@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:08pipvo51jgicgfv5rdbvf1g7ebo61l1v2@4ax.com...
>
>
> Hey all. I'm sort of a linux and ssh newbie. I've been using
> anonymizer.com's secure tunneling
> service on windows. On windows I use the teraterm pro ssh client.
> But I'm having trouble getting port forwaring to work on linux.
>
> Here's what I'm doing:
> $ ssh -l username -p 22 -L 80:cyberpass.net:80 cyberpass.net
> $ [ prompt for password ] [ enter password ]
>
> I'm logged in with the greeting message.
>
>
> Ok, now with mozilla I have manually configured the http proxy field
> to listen
> to localhost on port 80.
>
> Now when I go surfing I'm able to download from the web perfectly.
> Except that the traffic doesn't
> seem to be going through the remote server. It seems that the
> requests to web pages
> are being made directly with my ip address.
>
> Now if I kill the ssh process I'll get an error in my browser and am
> not able to
> download anything(until I change the mozilla configuration to work
> without a proxy).
>
> This is strange, it seems it's using the ssh client in one way, but
> not fully in the
> way that it's supposed to.
>
> Apache and an sshd process start by default on my Suse system so I
> kill them
> before I login to the remote ssh server.
> I've also deactived my Suse personal firewall.
> It still doesn't work right.
>
> I've also tried doing it as root and regular user.
>
> I'm using Suse 7.3 if that matters.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> -ed
>

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