I am conducting a small experiment on my office network. I have setup a proxy server on my desktop machine (connected to my LAN) and I have volunteers access the internet via my proxy server. Everything is working well. The problem is people cannot connect to the proxy server through their laptops. I asked my network admin and he said the wireless network has a firewall which prevents users from connecting to my proxy. He said I could tunnel the traffic or use SSH though. I am afraid I do not understand fully what is going on. Is there a way by which users connected on the wireless network can connect to my desktop?
I am using FreeProxy on Windows as my proxy server:
http://www.handcraftedsoftware.org/index.php?page=download
FreeProxy allows me to create a SOCKS 4/4a/5 proxy. Is that what I need?
Part of the experiment involves logging the URL requests of the users. I am doing a measurement study. So, any solution must allow me to log the URL requests of users. Also, what changes do I need to make in the browser configuration.
Best Answer
SSH uses TCP port 22, so just set up your proxy client and destination proxy server to listen on TCP port 22 and that should resolve your problem because your network administrator has implied that there is a firewall exception for TCP port 22.
(+1 for an interesting question, and also especially for getting permission from the network administrator before attempting to bypass the firewall.)