If anyone is interested, I wanted to do this because as I use heroku for my web app deployment, I keep running into firewalls at my workplace, while traveling, etc. How do I set up my proxy such that all my internet connections goes through my ubuntu server and channels it back to my client (Mac OSX). Is that the standard way of channeling your internet traffic through a proxy so you can bypass firewall? It seems that I have to know which application and what port they are using to access the internet? For example, if I use the terminal in OSX, I need to specify 'Terminal' as the application and know what port it uses? And I need to repeat that for Chrome, firefox, App Store, Diablo 3, etc.? For a list of which ports an application might use, see the Sources and Citations section below. This is where it confuses me:Įnter your application name. My router is a Cisco Linksys E3000.Īs I try to set up port forwarding, I came across this article.
The individual machine, I assume, is my ubuntu machine which will act as a ssh server. Then, it is time to forward ports on my router to individual machine. In ubuntu, I made sure that I have ssh server so I did a apt-get install ssh.
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According to the article, I have to create an ssh tunnel from how to tunnel traffic with ssh article.
I already found a spare pc and installed ubuntu 12 on it. I started using set proxy server ubuntu linux tutorial here. I think I understand the theory but I keep hitting roadblocks. The client that I'm using is a mac osx lion. As my title suggest, I would like to set up a proxy in linux.
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