How to redirect traffic through proxy using Proxychains

Many people work or study with the internet using a proxy server or behind firewall.

There are many reasons for the use of proxy servers by schools or their offices, including bandwidth savings, blocking unneeded access, or to find out users’ internet access.

There are no problem if you only use Firefox, Chrome or other applications that already have proxy server settings.

The problem is applications that don’t have proxy server settings, for example we want to use Shadowsocks client behind proxy server.

To solve this problem, there is an application called Proxychains.

Currently, proxychains only work on Linux.

Below is how to install proxychains and proxychains configuration.

Proxychains On Ubuntu

# sudo apt-get install proxychains

Intalling Proxychains On Centos

# wget http://springdale.math.ias.edu/data/puias/unsupported/7/x86_64/proxychains-ng-4.11-1.sdl7.x86_64.rpm
# yum install proxychains-ng-4.11-1.sdl7.x86_64.rpm

How to Install Proxychains On Mac OS

# brew install proxychains-ng

Proxychains configuration is on /etc/proxychains.conf