SSH (Remote) Tunnels

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 12:36:58 -0400

Just figured out how SSH remote tunnels work and wanted to write it down.

Nomenclature:

[Local] Client: your local computer. In fact, if I say local, I mean the client.
[Remote] Server: the server you connect to. If I say remote, I mean server.

Your standard tunnel, allows you to take a local port and redirect it to a remote port on the server:

$ ssh -L REMOTEPORT:client:CLIENTPORT user@server

Now, that by opening a tunnel in this way:

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