SSH tunnels woes with Putty

[Al]

Hi Folks,

I REALLY hope someone here can help me. I have been trying to setup a
SSH tunnel so that when I surf the net on my laptop I can SSH into my
Ubuntu box at home and go through that for web page traffic.

Now I tried to connect to Ubuntu@home from laptop running Win7 with:

putty -ssh my.dyndns.org -l username -P 443 -D 8080 -v

and the connection establishes just fine, but when I surf to
whatsmyip.org I get a different WAN IP to my Ubuntu WAN IP. Weird, so
after a lot or trying different things (IE7, Chrome etc) I rebooted
that same laptop into Ubuntu as well and issued the exact same command
but not using putty

ssh my.dyndns.org -l username -P 443 -D 8080 -v

Now it works like a charm, so I am thinking its something specific to
Win7 or Putty. But I am at the limit of my trouble shooting. Can
someone please help.

Cheers

-Al

[Andy Gray]

I have not managed to get a similar configuration working either.
However, using freecap and firefox to use the dynamic port forward
from putty did work. Perhaps try freecap out, it works for me. But
as you say, firefox should be able to use a dynamic port - or at least
I would have thought so, but I'm not sure myself (hence posting in
this forum in another thread)
- Andrew