ping through proxy?

[Markus Schönhaber]

Eugeneapolinary Ju:

> How can I tell only to "ping" to use the proxy on e.g.: localhost:2000 ?

So you're forwarding TCP packets directed at localhost:2000 to the
remote machine. Standard ping OTOH uses ICMP for which such a TCP
forward is useless.
If you want to have ICMP packets and other stuff go to the remote
machine, create a ssh ethernet or point-to-point tunnel (for the latter:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH_VPN
) or use another VPN solution like OpenVPN.

Regards
  mks