I have successfully setup a tunnel over SSH on linux mint, and can browse the web.

However, when I try to ssh using the same port, I get:

Couldn't establish connection to proxy: Network is unreachable ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

In my mate-network-properties I have selected manual proxy configuration, and socks host is 127.0.0.1

So why doesn't ssh use that proxy information, and can I make it use said proxy?