"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it is the light of the oncoming train" ~ Robert Lowell. Oh yes, another good quote. This post is on SSH tunneling, or as I like to call it 'Poor Man's VPN'.

I'm trying to create an encrypted tunnel from a Windows box to a Linux box using Putty. Actually I have been able to create the tunnel successfully. Putty creates a tunnel from localhost:5500 to ...

I have a linux box on our internal network and the router is forwarding the SSH port on the external IP to the internal ip of the linux box. I would like to be able to access our SQL server via ...

Once upon a time the thought of a firewalled, cordoned, and censored web was enough to send chills up the spine of any internet user. As the years have passed, however, our sentiment has softened. A ...

If you see a lot of banner ads on certain websites, you know that without a Virtual Private Network (VPN), hackers will quickly ravage your computer and burn down your house. Well, that seems to be ...

Once upon a time, I was doing on-site support for a hardware install at a hotel a few years ago. The remote tech’s remote desktop software didn’t want to play with my Linux laptop, so he couldn’t get ...

Using ssh tunnelling I can protect services which are not normally protected and/or encrypted against unauthorized access. In this example I show how I set up a secure connection to my IRC proxy, but ...

One piece of software I regularly use on various systems is SSH. It is a very powerful and useful protocol for remote and encrypted connectivity internal or external to your network. One thing that ...