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<head><title>How to enable Port Tunneling and why</title>
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<h1>How to enable Port Tunneling and Why</h1>
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<h2>What is port tunneling good for</h2>
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<P>Port tunneling is the ability to tunnel from your internet point for presence
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back to SDF servers and use the SDF servers like a <a
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCKS">Socks 4 Proxy</a>. This allows
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your connection to be encrypted via SSL between your internet access point and
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SDF. This allows your traffic to be more secure if you are on a public internet
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access point<p>
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<h2>What tools are needed</h2>
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<UL><LI>A good SSH Client that allows tunneling (<a href="http://www.putty.nl/">PuTTY</a> in my examples)</LI>
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<LI>Any software package that understands SOCKS 4 (<a href="http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/">Trillian</a> in my example)</LI>
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<LI><a href="http://sdf.lonestar.org/index.cgi?faq?MEMBERS?01">MetaArpa</a> membership</LI>
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</UL>
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<h2>How to set up PuTTY</h2>
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<P>
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First you need to connect to a SSL enabled SDF server: otaku.freeshell.org on port 443.
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<img src="tutorials/images/PuTTY1.gif" align="left" alt="putty screenshot 1" width="456" height="435"><br clear="all">
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Then you need to configure the port to tunnel on your local machine. Generally Socks proxies
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use port 1080 so that is a good port. Click on the Tunnels category and configure the tunnel as
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shown below.
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<img src="tutorials/images/PuTTY2.gif" align="left" alt="putty screenshot 2" width="456" height="435"><br clear="all">
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Click on the "Save" button and you should see the screen as listed below.
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<img src="tutorials/images/PuTTY3.gif" align="left" alt="putty screenshot 3" width="456" height="435"><br clear="all">
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Then go back to session
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and name and save the session. Click connect and the tunnel should become active.
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</p>
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<h2>How to use the Tunnel you just enabled</h2>
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<P>
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I am now going to configure Trillian (A great multi IM chat program) to use the Tunnel.
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It should be obvious how to configure other applications from these screenshots.
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<br/>
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First click on the "Trillian Prefernces" and select "Advanced Preferences". Select "Proxy"
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If you want all your chat services to use the proxy select use one setting for all services checkbox.
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Otherwise configure this on each service you want to encrypt over the tunnel.
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<img src="tutorials/images/Trillian.gif" align="left" alt="Trillian screenshot 1" width="730" height="530"><br clear="all">
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Click on "Close". Now your service should be able to connect through the tunnel.
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Again this will encryte all traffic from your Internet Access Point to SDF.
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Once it leaves SDF it will no longer be encrypted (Unless you are hitting a HTTPS
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page or something already encrytped).
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<br/><br/>
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Technically any program that supports a Socks 4 proxy can be used with the tunnel.
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</P>
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<font size=1><cite>$ID: $</cite></font>
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