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A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding
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Re: A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding
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Yeah, I get use out of the SOCKS proxy mode in combination with a "split VPN" at work. I need VPN to get into some internal resources via SSH, but there are lots of external/public/AWS resources I also need to access, and the full VPN adds too much overhead and fragility for those. Using the available split VPN, I can point a browser instance at a localhost SOCKS proxy port to relay over SSH + VPN for other web resou…
Firefox can be used with socks proxies nicely. - Use Multi-Account Containers plugin, where you define which domain should be opened in which container. - Use Container Proxy to configure which socks proxy to use for different containers. Pair that with ssh tunnel that you use as socks proxy and you have nive tunneling solution for browser.
Or use plugins like foxyproxy that implement transparent rule-based routing without containers.