Lets say you want to access a site which is not directly accessible from your computer but is accessible from a different computer that you can ssh to, you can create a ssh tunnel to that computer and use that tunnel to access the site from a browser on your computer.
Here are few steps that you can use to achieve it in less than 5 mins:
- Configure forwarder port using Putty
- Open Putty, go to Connection > SSH > Tunnels
- From this area, add in a source port (any unused port), and choose ‘Dynamic’.
- Give the IP address of the destination to which tunnel is being created.
- Then click ‘Add’ and you’ll get an entry under “Forwarded Ports”:
- Create a ssh session to the destination IP using putty
- Configure Firefox to use the tunnel
- Open options -> Advanced and go to Networks tab
- open settings under connections subsection
- Select Manual proxy configuration
- Set socks Host to 127.0.0.1 and set the port as forwarding port we configured
- Select socksv5
Now your Firefox browser is ready to connect to any web server using the newly created ssh tunnel
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