Just yesterday, I tried to learn ssh port forwarding. I googled, and ended up browsing 4 different articles, none of which were as clear, useful, and simple as this....

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Kudos to the author!...

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thanks for this helpful article, i've read several today trying to understand how port forwarding works and yours is the most helpful and understandable by a long way...

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thanks for this clear article.

However, i did notice one error which at first i couldn't figure out:

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lainee@work$ tail ~/.ssh/config

Host home-with-tunnel

Hostname 204.225.288.29

RemoteForward 2222:localhost:22

User laineeboo

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The Rem...

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My sincere thanks to Brian Hatch for this excellent text....

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I have done local and remote port forwarding. I typically use port forwarding to tunnel a remote desktop session. This works great over local forward, but for some reason remote desktop just hangs after login when using remote port forwarding. Anybody know why?...

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Perhaps the original author can comment on this; it's not mentioned and a little past common thought, at first, when considering this sort of thing.

If SSHD doesn't permit root logins (which it shouldn't IMHO, for security's sake), then you may have a tough time binding to a privileged port on th...

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Very useful, thanks....

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A correction if i may about LocalForwarding in the configuration file. The correct syntax in the config file is

LocalForward LocalPort Destination_host:Destination_Port

Excellent piece, good work ;)...

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