Hello everyone

I created a Ubuntu 16.04 droplet to configure SSH tunneling for my browser. Here are the steps I took : Created basic droplet ubuntu 16.04 Followed all these instructions : https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-16-04 Now I am trying to connect to my server through SSH with Putty on Windows. So I followed these steps : https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-route-web-traffic-securely-without-a-vpn-using-a-socks-tunnel The problem is that I have a very strong firewall so when I configure Putty and try to connect on port 22 I get this error before being able to login : “Software caused connection abort”

So I tried to open port 443 on my server in two different ways :

• I did ‘sudo nano /etc/ssh/ssh_config’ and tried to add 443 next to Port 22 like that :

Ports 22 443

• I also tried to open the port like that : ‘sudo ufw allow 443’

I restarted my ssh server ‘service ssh restart’ and changed my port in Putty to 443.

Now I get that error before being able to login: ‘Server Unexpectedly closed network connection’

Couple tests on my own computer : I tried some netstat on my computer to see which ports my computer is listening to : When I do : ‘telnet host 22’ I get ‘Connect failed’, same thing for port 443 and 80. When I do : 'netstat -an | find “:22” I get : TCP 127.0.0.1:2225 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING as well as some ‘TIME WAIT’ When I do : 'netstat -an | find “:80” I get tons of 192.168.1.1:XXXX with CLOSE WAIT When I do : 'netstat -an | find “:443” I get tons of 192.168.1.1:XXXX with ESTABLISHED and TIME_WAIT

Hope these tests help. I’d like to mention I had to setup my SSH server on another computer (Macintosh) without that strong firewall.

This is for you experts, if you have any ideas to solve this please share it! Thanks for your help