Port forwarding using SSH

Port forwarding is a technique which redirects an IP connection from one host to another. For example, if you are using a Linux/Unix system as a firewall you can redirect connections to port 1234 to an internal address such as 192.168.1.10:22 to provide an ssh tunnel from the outside world to an internal machine.

How to do it...

You can forward a port on your local machine to another machine and it's also possible to forward a port on a remote machine to another machine. In the following examples, you will get a shell prompt once the forwarding is complete. Keep this shell open to use the port forward and exit it whenever you want to stop the port forward.

1. This command will forward port 8000 on your local machine to port 80 on www...