Sometimes you are at the wrong time at the wrong place. There is no need for a fancy VPN server when you have access to a ssh server. This could be a machine back at home, a small vps server or even a shared webhosting account. Tip: Run your own ssh server at port 443 to circumvent any corporate firewall restrictions. Use SSH Tunnel as a poor man's vpn creates a local SOCKS proxy and forwards all your traffic on this port through the ssh connection. ssh -D It is super simple! $ ssh -D 8000 user@ssh-server.dyndns.org There is now a SOCKS proxy running under localhost:8000. Setup a SOCKS proxy in OSX via Terminal Now you have to configure your network settings to use this SOCKS proxy. Of course we want to automate this for our script. $ sudo networksetup -setsocksfirewallproxy "Wi-Fi" localhost 8000 Finally we pack everything an a nice script $ ./tunnel.sh { start | stop } The end. Be aware! Your terminal commands will use this SOCKS proxy by default. For some (wget, curl..) there is a configuration flag to use a proxy. not But if you want to tunnel all your traffic, you should have a look at . sshuttle But for me using sshuttle was significantly slower than a simple ssh tunnel. If you run into this problem, try to run sshuttle with the option `--no-latency-control`.
