SSH as Proxy

One of my favorite sites is inaccessible from my office (computer client hereinafter), for unknown reasons. But I can connect via SSH to a computer at another place (computer server hereinafter), where I can connect to that site. So it is necessary for me to use SSH tunnel as a proxy.

Steps:

1. Make sure compute server is running the SSH daemon;

2. Create an SSH tunnel by running ssh -C2TnN -D localhost:8080 username@server on computer client;

3. Use localhost:8080 as a SOCKS 5 proxy on computer client;

4. Have fun.

I need the proxy for only one or two sites, so I use FoxyProxy to automatically switch proxies.

References
[1] How to use ssh as a proxy server
[2] Proxy Firefox through a SSH tunnel

Related posts:

1. SSH with X
2. SSH without password

Tags: network, proxy, SSH