SSH: Port Tunnelling

Is able to map remote ports to locahost ports via ssh tunnels. This helps tunnel through firewalls if default ssh port connections are not allowed. The default SSH port is 22.

Example

ssh -f -L 5909:localhost:5909 user@server.com

ssh -p 60422 user@remote-server

Links

• http://www.revsys.com/writings/quicktips/ssh-tunnel.html
• http://chamibuddhika.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/ssh-tunnelling-explained/

Related

• TCP Ports
• UDP Ports