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I'll apologise in advance, because I'm 90% sure this question has been asked somewhere before, but I can't figure this out, decide what's better and I'm completely unfamiliar with all of this.
My problem: On my school's network they blocked pretty much every port except for 21, 22 and 443, but I want to access my website's FTP server connection (hosted by some company) on port 7685 (which I can't change) to my local machine (a Mac). Preferably using SFTP of course.
Now my question is: what would be the most secure and fast method to be able to mount the sftp to my local machine on the school's network?
At home I can set up my Raspberry Pi to use as a middleman and direct all traffic from any port, so my idea was to use that as a proxy between my school's network. So I'll set it up to receive traffic from my local machine/school network on port 443 and direct it to the FTP server at port 7685.
I can imagine two possibilities: 1) mounting the FTP to my RPi over port 7685 and then mounting my RPi to my machine on the school network using port 443, but I fear this would slow down the connection (because of the extra hop). Or 2) using my RPi as a proxy (with something called SOCKS?) to mount my sftp directly to my machine on the school network, but I can't figure out how this works.
Or is there another way that I'm not seeing?
Things I can change: I can do everything with my RPi at home and all network preferences/firewall settings. My local computer's settings.
Things I can't change: The FTP server port/settings and my school's network preferences. (duh)
Many thanks in advance! (if there already is an answer somewhere, please send it to me, then I'll delete this post)
I have found these two links that seem to do what I described above. I'll try them out and post the results. Ilya Prokin's Blog The Lone Coder
– Jip G – 2018-10-11T20:00:59.617