Vista IP Forwarding

[Saicho]

Hi all,

I'd like to setup IP forwarding (not quite sure that is the correct terminology) on Vista32.

My use case for this is as follows:

1. I have an app that tries to connect to hardcoded ip X at port P1 - X: P1
2. My firewall is blocking port P1
3. Using SSH tunneling, I set P1 as the source port, and X: P1 as the destination (in putty or any ssh client) and connect to my proxy server (standard stuff...)
4. Now, ideally, I would be able to tell the app to connect to localhost: P1 instead of X: P1 and everything will be fine.

However, since X: P1 is hardcoded in the app, I need a way to tell Vista, "whenever you are trying to connect to IP address X, use localhost instead".

Is there a way to accomplish this?

Thanks in advance,
Saicho

 

[Crusty]

Bust open a Hex editor and hope the assemblies aren't signed 😉

 

[Saicho]

Originally posted by: Crusty
Bust open a Hex editor and hope the assemblies aren't signed 😉

This thing is too complex for me to start trying to do that. It seems (actually I think I'm pretty sure) that the devs do NOT want people to use proxies.

I don't care though, there's no other way for me due to my firewall conditions =(