How to use pfsense as SSH client

accidentallyadmin

Hello,

Is it possible to use pfsense as SSH client to outside network/router to create an SSH tunnel? Bear in mind that the tunnel is not for general internet access but for certain services on external network only. I'm trying to set up a secure SSH tunnel so the clients on the LAN side will be re-routed through this SSH tunnel without the need to set it up on each client.
Hope I'm making any sense there.

Gertjan

@accidentallyadmin said in How to use pfsense as SSH client:

use pfsense as SSH client ....

I can :

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[23.09.1-RELEASE][root@pfSense.bhf.tld]/root: ssh
usage: ssh [-46AaCfGgKkMNnqsTtVvXxYy] [-B bind_interface] [-b bind_address]
           [-c cipher_spec] [-D [bind_address:]port] [-E log_file]
           [-e escape_char] [-F configfile] [-I pkcs11] [-i identity_file]
           [-J destination] [-L address] [-l login_name] [-m mac_spec]
           [-O ctl_cmd] [-o option] [-P tag] [-p port] [-Q query_option]
           [-R address] [-S ctl_path] [-W host:port] [-w local_tun[:remote_tun]]
           destination [command [argument ...]]

It has the ssh client (and server - as I'm using it to connect to it ).
Or I didn't understand the question.

stephenw10

Hmm, policy routing traffic over an SSH tunnel would be a lot more complex though. There's no way to do that in the GUI.

accidentallyadmin

@Gertjan Thank you, I will try your approach and report back as soon as I can