aetherh4cker
Corrupt Techie
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So here is my situation. I have OpenSSH running on my home machine. So from here at work, I start a putty session that forwards port 8080 traffic through my SSH connection that is on port 443 with this command:
putty -D 8080 -P 443 -ssh my.ip.goes.here
Now, I set up my work browser to use the ssh connection as a sort of proxy, by setting a SOCKS proxy in the internet options of 127.0.0.1, port 8080. This works just fine, forwards my traffic through my home pc. When I go to a web page that displays an ip address, it shows my home one.
I then set up my messenger client, Pidgin, to also go through the SSH. I do it the same way, in Pidgin settings I set a SOCKS proxy of 127.0.01, port 8080.
Since I can't really display a webpage on Pidgin, is there any way to tell for sure that it's traffic is going through the SSH connection? Pidgin works fine... but I want to know if it is using the SSH connection.
putty -D 8080 -P 443 -ssh my.ip.goes.here
Now, I set up my work browser to use the ssh connection as a sort of proxy, by setting a SOCKS proxy in the internet options of 127.0.0.1, port 8080. This works just fine, forwards my traffic through my home pc. When I go to a web page that displays an ip address, it shows my home one.
I then set up my messenger client, Pidgin, to also go through the SSH. I do it the same way, in Pidgin settings I set a SOCKS proxy of 127.0.01, port 8080.
Since I can't really display a webpage on Pidgin, is there any way to tell for sure that it's traffic is going through the SSH connection? Pidgin works fine... but I want to know if it is using the SSH connection.