Scenario:

Why would you want to setup a SSH tunnel? Well there are a lot of good reasons! For one you could have it to circumnavigate the proxy at your work/school. This would allow you to view webpages that your proxy blocks and it is secure with a SSH tunnel on port 443 so know one would know what you were up to. Also it would allow you to connect to a remote machine using Microsoft Remote Desktop or VNC.  Additionally it gives you the ability to connect to your DD-WRT router from afar to make changes to it. This comes in handy when tweaking your VPN setup on the client router.

Setting up a SSH tunnel via DD-WRT 

This tutorial is written using information found in the forums of DD-WRT forum.

This tutorial is also written with the assumption that you have successfully flashed your router with DD-WRT generic/vpn/voip. If you need directions on how to do so please visit: http://www.geek-pages.com/articles/latest/flashing_the_wrt54g/s/l_with_dd-wrt.html

Disclaimer:

The staff of www.geek-pages.com and/or www.dd-wrt.com takes no responsibility for your actions by circumnavigating a proxy. Nor do we take responsibility of an improper flash of your router. This tutorial is for educational purposes only, use at your own risk.

Scenario:

Why would you want to setup a SSH tunnel, well there are a lot of good reasons! For one you could have it to circumnavigate the proxy at your work/school. This would allow you to view webpages that your proxy blocks and it is secure with a SSH tunnel on port 443 so know one would know what you were up to. Also it would allow you to connect to a remote machine using Microsoft Remote Desktop or VNC.  Additionally it gives you the ability to connect to your DD-WRT router from afar to make changes to it. This comes in handy when tweaking your VPN setup on the client router.

The setup:

First we need to download a few things:

1)      Putty  http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe

2)      Puttygen http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/puttygen.exe