putty (was Re: vpn)

[Charles Jones]

Mike Bydalek wrote:
>
>
> Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>> On 2/12/08, Charles Jones <charles.jones at ciscolearning.org> wrote:
>>   
>>> Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>>>     
>>>>   why would you want to use putty on Linux?  just use the standard
>>>> command line SSH.
>>>>
>>>>   putty is useful on Win32 though.
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> I've used it before because putty can ssh through a SOCKS proxy
>>> connection, and the standard ssh cannot.
>>>     
>>
>>  Charles,
>>
>>  the fruit of a 2 minute google search:
>>
>>   http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2004/11/22/ssh_socks/
>>
>>  and yes "I'm Feeling Lucky!" :)
>>
>>   -jmz
>>   
> If you're gonna use SOCKS, you might as well do it all. ;) This 
> explains a nifty option in Firefox 
> http://outflux.net/blog/archives/2006/12/07/paranoid-browsing-with-squid/
>
> -Mike
*Nod*.  If you havn't tried it, I highly recommend the "Foxy Proxy" 
addon for Firefox. I establish ssh sessions w/SOCKS support to several 
different networks, I then configure Foxy Proxy to tunnel 
*.domain1.com.* to proxy port A, *.domain2.com.* to proxy port B, etc.  
The end result is I can enter a URL for any of the private networks and 
FoxyProxy sends it through the correct proxy connection. If it doesn't 
match the whitelist, then it uses the regular internet connection. 

The end result is seamless browsing of internet and "VPN" connections, 
with no hassle (except the initial setup of the tunnels). It also has an 
optional indicator that lets you know which connection is being used, as 
well as a 2 click way to force using only a certain proxy (for testing 
connectivity from different locations, etc).

-Charles
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