Using SSH tunnel connection as a SOCKS5 proxy
Month ago I was on a vacation and as usual even though our hotel provided us with an internet connection on a pretty decent speeds, I wasn’t able to work there because they’ve banned all tcp ports but some major ones (like 80, 21, etc) and I needed to be able to use ssh, mysql, IMs and other non-web software.
After a short research I’ve found a pretty simple to set up and easy to use approach to such a connection problems I’d like to describe here.