ssh -D 1337 -f -C -q -N user@remote -p 22
- -D 1337 tells ssh to launch a SOCKS server on port 1337 locally.
- -f forks the process into the background.
- -C Turns on compression.
- -q enables “Quiet mode”, since the purpose here is only to tunnel we don’t really care about error output and such.
- -N tells ssh that no commands will be sent (-f complains if we don’t specify this).
- -p specifies what port to use; obviously this is defaulted to 22 so the statement above is pointless, but if you’re a clever fellow you’re probably not running SSH on port 22 🙂
References :
http://askubuntu.com/questions/469582/how-do-i-set-up-a-local-socks-proxy-that-tunnels-traffic-through-ssh