This question is in regards to SSH and the possiblity of setting up a SSH tunnel home for unmonitored browsing purposes.
Our company has proxies using Websense that are extremely restrictive and don't allow us to do a lot of "research". We have a single machine (linuxbox.company) that basically allows us to SSH out to boxes on the Internet. I have a box at home homebox@dyndns.org that I can establish a SSH connection to that allows me to browse on my home internet. Can the following diagram be done?

Here is the nework layout

My desktop.company ----------SSH tunnel---------------->linuxbox.company---------SSH tunnel-------------->homebox.dyndns.org

Now that an SSH session is esablished can I foward port 80 back to work to linuxbox.internal and from there foward a connection back to my desktop.company? Would linuxbox.company have port 80 open somehow that desktop.company needs to connect to somewhat like a proxy? I think this is possible with port fowarding using SSH but I just want to get confirmation from someone with SSH experience before I attempt this. It will somewhat of a VPN from my desktop at work to the box that is allowed to connect to SSH boxes on the internet to my home linux box.

My desktop.company<--------SSH tunnel (80)---------------->linuxbox.company<----------SSH tunnel (80)-------------->homebox.dyndns.org




Please let me know if the diagram is confusing.

Thanks

OpenSSH has built-in support to act as a SOCKS proxy. That should get you started. You'll have to experiment a bit based on your internal architecture.

Thank you javaroast, I'll do some research on socks.