SSH Tunnel with Putty and Squid

Kode — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:15:55 +0000

The purpose of this guide is to provide an easy to follow set of instructions that should allow you to create an SSH tunnel in around 10 minutes.

What you will need:

Install squid:

apt-get install squid

Start putty
From left hand tree menu select Click SSH (under the Connection menu item) to expand the tree items, then click on Tunnels
In Source port enter 3128 (default Squid port), select Dynamic and click on the Add button

An entry should show up in the forwarded ports section
In the left hand menu go to Session
Put the hostname of your server, select SSH (if not already selected), then under Saved Sessions type tunnel (or any name you want to call the saved session) and click save. This will enable you, in the future to click on “tunnel”, click Load, then Open.
Click Open. You cannot SSH tunnel without an open connection, it will ask you for your username and password.

Click Tools, then select Options…
Select the Advanced option then then Network tab.
Click on Settings
Select Manual proxy configuration, then under SOCKS Host type localhost and in Port enter 3128 (In Vista SP1 you might have to use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost for the SOCKS Host)

Congratulations, you should now have a fully functioning SSH Tunnel, you can test this by going to Whats My IP

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