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Setup SOCKS proxy
Configure Proxy Settings - OS Level
Configure Proxy Settings - Firefox Only
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First, you need to SSH to the remote machine with some special parameters:
ssh -vND 8888 [email protected]
Some detail on those options:
-v verbose mode; useful for debugging
-N don't start an interactive shell on the remote server
-D setup the SOCKS proxy on port 8888 on localhost
Now, go into your Network Control Panel, and then 'Advanced…' → 'Proxies'. Set the
SOCKS Proxy (only)
with your proxy settings:
localhost
/
8888
. You
DO NOT
want to set the HTTP proxy, HTTPS proxy, etc.
From here, all your apps that are proxy aware (most of them, probably) will 'just work'.
In some cases, you may not want to mess around with the system settings, especially if you just have something quick you need to do. In that case, Firefox allows you to configure it's proxy settings separately from the rest of the
OS
.
Go to 'Preferences' → 'Advanced' → 'Settings…' → 'Manual proxy configuration'. The key here is that you want to fill in
ONLY the SOCKS host and port
, and not the HTTP proxy, etc. As above, the settings are
localhost
and port
8888
(assuming you followed the example SSH command above).
Once you've got things setup, go to
http://www.myipaddress.com/
and double check that you're seeing the IP address of the remote machine (e.g.
host.com
in the example above). If you are, you're good to go… you're routing all traffic via the proxy!
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