Putty Configuration with SSH and Port Forwarding

Dr. Phibes
Version 1.2, August 9, 2004

Putty configuration windows

The following windows show the Putty configuration used to implement some of the methods described in Firewall Tunneling.

You will also want to obtain and use Puttygen, a program that will create a set of RSA keys for ssh authentication. See the excellent Putty documentation for more details.


Configure an ssh session


Specify the remote username


Select SSH protocol version


Configure RSA authenication


Add tunneling protocols