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I'm trying to use an ssh tunnel from a remote location to connect to my home network and access the router web interface.

I have SSH access to the home network, and I can connect to the gateway machine "Lounge". (e.g. 192.168.1.100)

What would I need to do to proxy web requests to the router (192.168.1.1) on the home network, via "Lounge", so that I can view it from the remote location?

If it makes a difference, the "Lounge" machine is running OS X.

I want an ssh / command-line only solution to this, thanks.

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ssh command...

ssh user@remotehost -L localport:host_reachable_from_remote_host:remoteport

So for example...

ssh ocodo@100.100.100.100 -L 8080:192.168.1.1:8080

This will create a tunnel to 192.168.1.1 port 8080 on the remote network (reachable from the machine at 100.100.100.100), to the local port 8080.

Viewable via http://localhost:8080 in your browser.

If you want to avoid having ssh open the shell connection on the remote machine, and just leave the tunnel open, use the switch -N for example.

ssh -N ocodo@100.100.100.100 -L 8080:192.168.1.1:8080
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Download putty if you don't already have it, the format you need for this is:

putty -ssh username@publicip -pw password -L localport:privateip:destinationport

Here is what you would use to get to 192.168.1.1 remotely through SSH:

putty -ssh username@publicip -pw password -L 8080:192.168.1.1:80

You could then open up a web browser to 127.0.0.1:8080 on the computer you created the tunnel with and up would pop the router interface.

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