Proxy network

Blice · 2008-11-25 21:02:07

Hi. I asked this question in the IRC and they said to use the forums/wiki:

I need to have my traffic for a box of mine go through a proxy. Not just HTTP traffic, but ssh vpn etc. aswell.

I thought maybe there would be an option for this in my router but there isn't. Then I thought maybe if I set up another box as a gateway I could do it? I dunno how to go about that. Just a thought. The proxy is on localhost, by the way.

How would I do this...?

Thanks.

fukawi2 · 2008-11-25 22:17:38

There's no such thing as a proxy for SSH or VPN... It kind of defeats the purpose of it being encrypted end-to-end if there's a proxy in the middle reading and translating the traffic...

If the proxy is localhost, what are you trying to achieve? There might be an alternative way to go about it.

Blice · 2008-11-26 14:09:56

fukawi2 wrote:

There's no such thing as a proxy for SSH or VPN... It kind of defeats the purpose of it being encrypted end-to-end if there's a proxy in the middle reading and translating the traffic...
If the proxy is localhost, what are you trying to achieve? There might be an alternative way to go about it.

Well the proxy is actually an ssh tunnel to another box of mine somewhere else.

fukawi2 · 2008-11-26 21:57:12

Okay, well you can setup your SSH tunnel to act as a SOCKS proxy for HTTP, Chat, FTP and anything else that supports SOCKS Proxies:
http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/weblogs/a … ssh-tunnel

You can use SSH to open static tunnels for other SSH, VPN, E-Mail etc:
http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/ssh_tunnelling.html

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