SSH question

[gEEEk]

I'm working on a SSH connection to my home so I can simply tunnel

Firefox and Thunderbird traffic through a SOCKS v5.

I'm currently using Plink because I think the GUI in Putty is unnecessary.

The command I'm using is: user@ip -P 9393 -D 8585

So the dynamic port I'll be using in Firefox is 8585.

My question is, do I need to port forward 8585? And if, TCP or UDP?

And is 9393 a TCP or UDP port?

/gEEEk

[Sparda]

I'm working on a SSH connection to my home so I can simply tunnel

Firefox and Thunderbird traffic through a SOCKS v5.

I'm currently using Plink because I think the GUI in Putty is unnecessary.

The command I'm using is: user@ip -P 9393 -D 8585

So the dynamic port I'll be using in Firefox is 8585.

My question is, do I need to port forward 8585? And if, TCP or UDP?

And is 9393 a TCP or UDP port?

/gEEEk

You don't need (and doing so wouldn't help) to forward 8585 as that will be going through the tunnel. SSH connections use TCP.

[gEEEk]

You don't need (and doing so wouldn't help) to forward 8585 as that will be going through the tunnel. SSH connections use TCP.

Great.

Thank you for the quick answer!

:)