Port forwarding with ssh

[Ugo Bellavance]

Ryan Golhar wrote:
> I have an application this is trying to connect to a certain port (call
> it port x) on a certain machine (call it machine a) that is sitting
> behind a firewall.  The connection can't be made because of the
> firewall...
> 
> I can ssh into machine a and was wondering about using port forwarding
> to allow my local application to connect to port x.  
> 
> Everything I read on port forwarding sounds like the application has to
> connect to a local port which will then be forwarded to another port on
> another machine.
> 
> Does anyone know how to do this short of setting up a VPN?

Explore the '-L' option to ssh.

man ssh

> 
> Ryan
> 

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