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1. #PUTTY SSH TUNNEL PROXY INSTALL#
2. #PUTTY SSH TUNNEL PROXY ARCHIVE#
3. #PUTTY SSH TUNNEL PROXY SERIES#
4. #PUTTY SSH TUNNEL PROXY DOWNLOAD#

Fire up the client and enter the hostname and port.An extra step that’s not really necessary- Add C:\bin to your Windows system path (if you don’t know how, skip this or google it).

#PUTTY SSH TUNNEL PROXY ARCHIVE#

Extract the contents of the putty archive into C:\bin.

#PUTTY SSH TUNNEL PROXY DOWNLOAD#

#PUTTY SSH TUNNEL PROXY INSTALL#

This means that web pages that are blocked can be seen and passwords that are sent can’t be looked at.įor a much better definition, please see Wikipedia Install PuTTY Tunneling bypasses some of the rules that these companies or ISPs may be enforcing on you by creating a direct, encrypted, connection to your tunnel server that can’t be easily peered into by prying eyes.

#PUTTY SSH TUNNEL PROXY SERIES#

When your browser (or other client) requests a webpage (or anything off the Internet) it sends a request from your computer through a series of routers, switches, firewalls, and servers owned and monitored by other people, companies, and ISPs until it reaches its destination, then follows the same (or similar) path back to your machine with the kitten pictures you asked for. What is Tunneling? The Over Simplified Definition Also, it could be incriminating if people knew how often I was checking my 9th (out of 10) place Fantasy Football team stats. Why? Because big brother may be watching, but I can bet you someone even worse is trying to. It is possible to send DNS traffic through the SOCKS proxy as below but the above alone creates a secure and easily configured) connection.This tutorial is aimed at Windows users and focuses on PuTTY as our SSH client of choice.Īre you stuck behind a firewall or looking to add some privacy to your browsing? Whenever I’m off my own network I fire up an SSH tunnel back to my own servers and send all my browsing information through it. This will enable you to view college – and other – websites as if you were actually sat at frank (which is in a rack here in EECS) but it will NOT hide your DNS requests and it will only encrypt network traffic between frank and your local machine. To determine that the proxy is up go to and confirm that your IP address matches franks IP address (138.37.88.242). Make sure ‘SOCKS v5’ is selected and select the ‘OK’ button to save.Īs long as your PuTTY SSH connection remains connected, your proxy tunnel will be open and you will be able to use the internet through this proxy. In the ‘SOCKS Host’ box enter ‘localhost’ and for ‘Port’ enter ‘31415’ (or whatever you set your SSH Tunnel up with).ħ. Under ‘Configure Proxies to Access the Internet’ select the ‘Manual proxy configuration’ radio button.Ħ. Under Advanced, in the middle of the page, select Network -> Connection -> Settings.ĥ. On the left side of the window, select “Advanced”.Ĥ. Go to “Options” under the right-hand-side menu.ģ.

Once the tunnel is established, you now need to set up a SOCKS proxy in your web browser.Ģ. This should open and terminal window and you should be prompted to login to frank. You should see ‘D31415’ in the ‘Forwarded ports:’ box.Ħ. Under ‘Destination’ select the ‘Dynamic’ radio button and leave the ‘Auto’ button selected.ĥ. For ‘Source Port’ enter ‘31415’ (this can be configured to whatever you want, just make sure you remember it).Ĥ. On the left side, in the Category window, go to Connection -> SSH -> Tunnels.ģ. To set this up in Windows you’ll need to download and install Putty – which is a free SSH client for Windows – and follow the instructions below:ġ]Launch PuTTY and enter the “.uk” as the hostname. If you need to get to college internal websites and this is the case it might be possible to use SSH as a SOCKS proxy (a “poor mans VPN”). There are times (and locations) where outgoing VPN access is blocked.