Sometimes it is useful to route traffic through a different machine for testing or development.
At work, we have a VPN to a remote facility that we haven't bothered to fix for routing, so the
only way to access a certain machine over that VPN is via an SSH tunnel to a machine that is
reachable over the VPN. Other times, I have used this technique to test internet-facing
requests against sites I am developing. It is pretty easy, and if you don't use firefox
regularly, you can treat Firefox as your "Proxy" browser and other browsers can use a
normal configuration (Although you can also configure an entire system to use the
proxy, other articles exists that discuss this potential).
- Open a terminal