How to use SSH tunnel to access the campus network

Goal:

Access the resources in the Tsinghua campus net, e.g., IEEE database.

Theory:

SSH provides a proxy function that enables connection of any TCP-based applications to be forwarded in or outside of a subnet. For more information:

http://www.yuexuan.org/?p=1000

How to:

The only need is an account in a SSH server within the Tsinghua campus net. CSLT fellows please use 166.111.134.19. Following the instructions given by http://www.yuexuan.org/?p=1000, setup a tunnel using putty and connect to our server, and then setup the browser to use the local machine (127.0.0.1) as the socket5 proxy, you can access the resources that are only available at Tsinghua.