Port Forwarding via SSH - Was: Re: [H-GEN] Static Routing

[Mark Suter]

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David,

> I've just been fiddling with ssh'ing to a box that sits on a secure LAN and 
> has access to an intranet. Is there a way I could use ssh forwarding to allow 
> me to browse the intranet at that site from my home machine via ssh?

With the permission of those administering your network, two
options spring to mind:

    1) Create a SOCKS4/5 proxy with ssh.  You'll need to use
       libsocks or something like it, but almost everything will
       "just work" as if you had network access.

	ssh -D 1080 user at host.example.com
	http://www.socks.permeo.com/AboutSOCKS/SOCKSOverview.asp
	http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1928

    2) Forward a port to a http proxy (squid, etc).  This might be
       easier to do but it will only work applications that use a
       http proxy (web browser, wget, etc)

	ssh -L 3128:localhost:3128 user at proxy.example.com

Yours sincerely,

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