Kurt Weiske  wrote:
> -=> Axel Berger wrote to Chris Green <=-
>
>  AB> Chris Green wrote:
>  > I do that by using a simple proxy setup, one-liner ssh command,
>  > configure Firefox to use the proxy and it's done.
>
>  AB> It's me, there's a lot I don't know about networks, but I do not
>  AB> understand that sentence at all, not one little bit.
>
>  The SSH protocol allows for port forwarding, which allows network
>  traffic to be routed over it. Connect via SSH to one of the machines
>  in your university, configure SSH port forwarding, and with a little
>  work all web traffic will go over the ssh tunnel to your university
>  and appear to come from your university instead of your home.
>
>  It's a little deep to try and explain off the top of my head, there
>  are a lot of tutorials on the web that'll explain it better than I
>  can.
>
In my case I often use it when I'm in France because my library and my
doctor both require a uk 'user'.  So, on my laptop in France I simply
do:-

    ssh -C2qTnN -D 8080 

Then in firefox Network Settings simply tell it to use port 8080 as
the proxy address, job done!

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Chris Green
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