SSH tricks: Forward and Reverse Tunneling for Fun and Profit
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008SSH or Secure SHell is a protocol for connecting to a remote computer’s shell securely. Many people use it for just this purpose, but there are several less used, yet extremely useful tricks you can use to get more out of SSH.
In this post, I will cover what forward and reverse tunneling of ports through SSH is. Why you would want to do it, and how to do it. Port tunneling is also known as port forwarding.