SSH tunnel (proxy) setup using Putty(SSH client) to a Home router

You need an SSH tunnel. There are many reasons to use it, if you're trying to create a tunnel you'll definitely have in mind (at least) one. I am often confronted with the HTTP proxy which prevents the connection to a lot of stuff, IRC for example. Fortunately, SSH works very well by this proxy, and for good reason, SSH, like HTTPS uses SSL to transport data securely. Most of the proxies do not the difference. Most of the access network are well protected, beginning with those of a company. The closure of some ports not needed is a common thing, and software firewalls can be very restrictive without it there can be nothing.

But it may have to access external resources unfortunately blocked by a router too permissive. In these cases an SSH tunnel is its usefulness. Also, you can use SSH to encrypt its shipments of information in plain text (eg when using SMTP, VNC or rsync. SSL is in effect a secure communication protocol. It is standardized under the name TLS [Read our article of 19/07/2005], but SSL is the most common name. An SSH tunnel is a secure access via TCP connection between two network points. The tunnel allows the encryption of all data it transports. In practice, an SSH tunnel supports all data sent by a specific TCP port of the sending machine, encrypts and sends them to a remote machine. It decrypts the data and makes it accessible to one of these ports, or another machine, and returns the port redesign.

What is a Tunnel :

You want to connect to a remote server (It will take the example of an IRC server), but a proxy is blocking the IRC protocol. You will then create a link, a "tunnel" between you and your SSH server (found in your example) that passes through the proxy. The SSH client will connect to the SSH server of the laboratory itself is accessible from the outside. At the same time it will create an SSH tunnel that will achieve the target required in the configuration or command line on Unix or OSX or in the menus Windows, Proxy lab. It remains only to configure the application (in our case the browser) the Customer (the machine located outside the school) to tell him to go through this tunnel all requests (HTTP) required.

Putty :

PuTTY is the recommended utility to connect to SSH server. On Windows, PuTTY is available as an executable. If the default installation path does not suit you, you can install it anywhere you if you want to have administrator privileges on the target system or if not install it in your personal space. For Linux systems installed from the standard image of the SAI, the software is pre-installed from the Debian package. It is accessible through the standard menu: Debian / Applications / Network. (Note: Applications / Debian Menu / Applications / Network Gnome). It can develop an agent that stores keys. No one claps when the password once per login session. It is a line utility