Tunnelling to connect behind the CERN Firewall

If you are working from home you may not be able to access certain services that are behind the CERN firewall. A possible solution is to use an SSH tunnel. We can set up a tunnel by:

ssh -D 8888 lxtunnel.cern.ch

Which would set up a tunnel on port 8888. It is possible to set up the tunnel system wide, as show in this guide, however we advise using the simpler method of a browser extension such as Proxy SwitchOmega to switch between the proxy quickly.