proxy for applications

[chunlix]

Hello,

I've got a bit of a situation here. I'm off to Japan for a few months, and I'm playing an online game that only allows north american IP addresses to play.

The good news is I have a CentOS 5.5 dedicated server located here, with plenty of bandwidth to allow gaming. I just can't find any resources explaining how I can configure a proxy for gaming applications, all I find out there is for web browsing proxies which I don't need.

I've seen this done before using Putty and some special configurations, if anyone can point me in the right direction for this kind of setup it would be much appreciated.

Thanks

[kakariko81280]

Hi there,

Would a socks proxy do? You can set up ssh to be a socks proxy and connect to it from anywhere. Depending on your gaming needs you can use tsocks to 'sockify' any program.

See this ssh tunneling guide for details.

Let us know how you get on,

Chris

[chunlix]

Thanks, I didn't quite use that method but I got it working by using PuTTY to ssh to the server while making my localhost on a specified port point to it, and used some application called FreeCap to force the game to go through it.

I think it's the same concept as in that article but different software.