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From: Ed W <lists@wildgooses.com>
To: "J. Zeidler" <jonatan_zeidler@gmx.de>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about using SSH-tunnel / Frage zum Benutzen eines SSH-Tunnels
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:12:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E450A97.8070303@wildgooses.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E44F1DC.3090605@gmx.de>

On 12/08/2011 10:26, J. Zeidler wrote:
> English:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I use a SSH-tunnel with Putty on Ubuntu 11.04. I want to achieve, that
> the network traffic over a specific port is redirected over the tunnel.
> I need this because of a strict firewall, which i can not configure. the
> tunnel runs on localhost:9999. i can use this as proxy with firefox, so
> the tunnel works. i tried this without success:

Try OpenVPN (or your favourite VPN package, possibly SSH with the
tun/tap whatever basic vpn mode?).  This is likely easier to setup and
tunnels all traffic out.  OpenVPN can also run over http connect with a
bit of configuration, so can slip out of fairly locked down firewalls...

Good luck

Ed W

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-12 11:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-12  9:26 Question about using SSH-tunnel / Frage zum Benutzen eines SSH-Tunnels J. Zeidler
2011-08-12  9:47 ` Rob Sterenborg (lists)
2011-08-12 10:25   ` J. Zeidler
2011-08-12 10:35     ` Rob Sterenborg (lists)
2011-08-12 22:13       ` J. Zeidler
2011-08-13  1:57         ` /dev/rob0
2011-08-14  1:28           ` J. Zeidler
2011-08-12 10:00 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-08-12 10:19   ` J. Zeidler
2011-08-12 11:12 ` Ed W [this message]
2011-08-12 12:35   ` Javier Almillategui
2011-08-12 22:40     ` J. Zeidler
2011-08-12 22:43   ` J. Zeidler

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