SSH Port Forwarding on Linux

Posted by linuxhint on Apr 6, 2018 4:44 AM EDT
LinuxHint; By Shahriar Shovon
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SSH Port forwarding is used to forward ports between a local and a remote Linux machine using SSH protocol. It is mainly used to encrypt connections to different applications. Even if that application doesn’t support SSL encryption, SSH port forwarding can create a secure connection. You can even use port forwarding to expose a machine to the internet without an internet routable IP address, so that you can access it remotely and securely. There are many more uses of SSH port forwarding. There are mainly two types of SSH port forwarding. Local port forwarding and remote port forwarding. In this article I will show you how to do port forwarding on Linux.

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