On Sun, May 9, 2010 13:01, mick wrote:
I have a problem with ssh tunneling that is puzzling me.
I run tor on a VPS. My tor node also runs privoxy (chained to tor) so
that I may use the VPS for my own tor browsing.
When I want to use tor myself, I have for some time simply set up a
tunnel to my VPS as so:
ssh -N -C -l mick -f -L 2000:127.0.0.1:8118 tornode
(so I am listening locally on 2000 and forwarding to privoxy on the tor
node.)
You might have better luck using a regular VPN such as OpenVPN. Here's a HOWTO: