:: Linux : socks proxy via ssh

:: How to connection socks proxy via ssh
+ setup proxy connection

ssh -D 8080 [email protected]

8080 = local proxy port
username = your ssh username
192.168.0.1 = your ip address server

+ enable socks proxy connection in firefox

Edit - Preferences - Advanced - Network - Connection - Settings - Manual Proxy Configuration:
SOCKS host: 127.0.0.1
Port: 8080
enable SOCKS v5

:: Testing SOCKS Proxy
Open your browser and checking your ip connection using whatismyip.com or other ip checker.

One Comment

sysop says:

July 19, 2012 at 12:03 pm

another relevant solution here is tsocks.

this small library designed to handle SOCKS5 communication transparently for softwares can’t do so.

after you estabish the socks tunnel by ssh, start tsocks:
tsocks wget //…
tsocks will translate wget’s connect() syscalls making it socks-compatible 🙂

(not sure if wget be already socks-able…)

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