[wplug] USB internet sharing / SSH tunnel?

[Shane Liesegang]

Right, that takes care of it for just that site... but could I set it up 
to handle all traffic on a given port?

	- SJML


Vendicate wrote:
> this might help...
> 
> ssh -N -L Local_PDA_Port:Remote_Host:Remote_Port [user@]ssh_server_hostname
> 
> Local_PDA_Port is the port on your PDA,
> Remote_Host is the remote server that you want to securely transmit
> TCP traffic to,
> Remote_Port is the port on that machine,
> user is your username on your ssh server, and
> ssh_server_hostname is your ssh Server.
> 
> confusing? lets say i want to connect to site.com but securely through 
> ssh so...
> 
> ssh -N -L 22:site.com:80 shane at sshserver.com
> 
> if you want to use a browser in your pda: set the proxy to localhost
> and port x and:
> 
> ssh -N -L x:site.com:80 shane at sshserver.com
> 
> GL
> 
> On 7/2/06, Shane Liesegang <shane at shaneliesegang.com> wrote:
>> I've got a PDA running Linux (an old Sharp Zaurus) connected to my PC
>> (running Ubuntu at the moment). The USB networking is fine and dandy,
>> and both machines can ping each other and SSH to each other. The problem
>> is getting the PDA to see the internet at large. After a few disastrous
>> attempts at bridging the USB connection to the Ethernet, I'm starting to
>> wonder if there's a better way.
>>
>> I know SSH can be used to tunnel connections by essentially tricking an
>> app into thinking the local computer is the remote one and passing all
>> the traffic down the SSH connection. Is it possible to make it more
>> generic? Say, to tunnel port 80 to a remote host and have all traffic
>> over port 80 be funneled through the SSH connection?
>>
>>      - SJML
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