SSH tunneling, or SSH port forwarding, is a method of transporting arbitrary data over an encrypted SSH connection. SSH tunnels allow connections made to a local port (that is, to a port on your own ...

I'm trying to tunnel VNC through SSH using a non standard port number for SSH. I have the setup working on my LAN, but I cannot get a connection over the internet. My LAN is behind my Linksys router, ...

SOCKS is built in to OpenSSH, so it's a trivial matter to set up a local SOCKS proxy with the -D flag. For example: $ ssh -D 12345 myuser@remote_ssh_server will open up the port 12345 on your local ...