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+  <head><title>How to enable Port Tunneling and why</title>
+  </head>
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+    <h1>How to enable Port Tunneling and Why</h1>
+    <h2>What is port tunneling good for</h2>
+    <P>Port tunneling is the ability to tunnel from your internet point for presence
+      back to SDF servers and use the SDF servers like a <a
+      href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCKS">Socks 4 Proxy</a>.  This allows
+      your connection to be encrypted via SSL between your internet access point and
+      SDF.  This allows your traffic to be more secure if you are on a public internet
+      access point<p>
+    <h2>What tools are needed</h2>
+    <UL><LI>A good SSH Client that allows tunneling (<a href="http://www.putty.nl/">PuTTY</a> in my examples)</LI>
+      <LI>Any software package that understands SOCKS 4 (<a href="http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/">Trillian</a> in my example)</LI>
+      <LI><a href="http://sdf.lonestar.org/index.cgi?faq?MEMBERS?01">MetaArpa</a> membership</LI>
+    </UL>
+    <h2>How to set up PuTTY</h2>
+    <P>
+      First you need to connect to a SSL enabled SDF server: otaku.freeshell.org on port 443.
+      <img src="tutorials/images/PuTTY1.gif" align="left" alt="putty screenshot 1" width="456" height="435"><br clear="all">
+
+      Then  you need to configure the port to tunnel on your local machine.  Generally Socks proxies
+      use port 1080 so that is a good port.  Click on the Tunnels category and configure the tunnel as
+      shown below.
+      <img src="tutorials/images/PuTTY2.gif" align="left" alt="putty screenshot 2" width="456" height="435"><br clear="all">
+
+      Click on the "Save" button and you should see the screen as listed below.
+      <img src="tutorials/images/PuTTY3.gif" align="left" alt="putty screenshot 3" width="456" height="435"><br clear="all">
+
+      Then go back to session
+      and name and save the session.  Click connect and the tunnel should become active.
+    </p>
+    <h2>How to use the Tunnel you just enabled</h2>
+    <P>
+      I am now going to configure Trillian (A great multi IM chat program) to use the Tunnel.
+      It should be obvious how to configure other applications from these screenshots.
+      <br/>
+      First click on the "Trillian Prefernces" and select "Advanced Preferences".  Select "Proxy"
+      If you want all your chat services to use the proxy select use one setting for all services checkbox.
+      Otherwise configure this on each service you want to encrypt over the tunnel.
+      <img src="tutorials/images/Trillian.gif" align="left" alt="Trillian screenshot 1" width="730" height="530"><br clear="all">
+
+      Click on "Close".  Now your service should be able to connect through the tunnel.
+      Again this will encryte all traffic from your Internet Access Point to SDF.
+      Once it leaves SDF it will no longer be encrypted (Unless you are hitting a HTTPS
+      page or something already encrytped).
+      <br/><br/>
+      Technically any program that supports a Socks 4 proxy can be used with the tunnel.
+    </P>
+  <font size=1><cite>$ID: $</cite></font>
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