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This proxy connection will be valid as long as you’re connected using SSH. Now try browsing using the local PC, the remote system will act as a proxy and the public IP visible will be of that and not of the local PC.
#Ssh proxy host manual#
Select the option of Manual proxy configuration and in the SOCKS host box, enter localhost with the local port number as 55500 (the one used for port forwarding). Then scroll down to Network Settings and click on Settings. Once the remote connection is established, you’d need to set up the browser on the local PC to use the SOCKS proxy. Any port number from 1025 to 65535 can be used for this. So to use it as a proxy, simply bind or forward a local port to the IP address of the remote system and then configure the local browser to connect to that (web traffic).
This essentially redirects the local connection to a remote system by mapping the port number with IP address. All that is needed is the remote system should be accessible through SSH.
#Ssh proxy host install#
The cool part about creating a proxy server with this is that there is no need to install any additional packages or tools on the remote system.
#Ssh proxy host how to#
Here is how to set up an SSH server on Ubuntu.
The SSH command is useful to access remote systems directly from the Linux command line.
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