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: http://hinterlands.org/wiki/index.php/OpenVPNQuickstart