Quick and Dirty SSH Tunneling

Shawn shows us how to set up a quick SSH tunnel for accessing a computer behind a remote firewall. He demonstrates this from his hotel room 400 miles away from his home network! :)

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• ssh
• tunnel
• linux
• firewall

[vlad4video]

damn, long time no see Shawn.

Hope to see you post more often.

[KurtKraut]

Always, I mean really ALWAYS add -C to your SSH command to add gzip compression to the content being transfered through SSH. It is always worthy, no matter what you're doing.

[6Diego1Diego9]

this isnt working for me. the tunnle works just like his in the video, but i cant access my router on localhost:8888

[oneguycoding]

@hfsjansharr Or add an entry for Host sever.com to your .ssh/config file,

Host sever Port 2222 BindAddress 8080 User foobar Hostname sever.com

Then use 'ssh sever' which accomplishes the same thing.

[bsgrep]

What distro do you use?

[scouter389]

Thanks for the tips on the tunneling. This will be handy for monitoring my network away from home.

[DrSirHenrik]

It is a mac :O

[hfsjansharr]

I ssh a lot so I edited my .bashrc file and created some 'bash aliases'. For example I don't have to type 'ssh -D 8080 foobar@sever.com -p 2222' anymore. I simply type:"server", or any alias I specified in my .bashrc file.

[pbezunartea]

Great tip! 

[bamojr]

Glad to have you back.