At the moment I'm sitting on a windows box on a public network. The network uses a very strict firewall policy (I can't f.ex. use google feeds).
However I do have an debian box which I can ssh into. This works great. So I have now set up my windows box so that it uses socks through ssh (putty). This works sometimes, and sometimes it don't!
I think it works if; I have connected and used socks on my local home network, then I go into sleep mode, and then it continue to work on public networks.
It doesn't work if I haven't already used socks at least once after the last restart. I can however connect and disconnect as many times I want to the server, and socks will continue to work as long as I'm connected as long as I already have used socks once. Why is that?
Or more importantly, how do I manage to use socks without already having used it once?
