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Port forward is a java application which gives you the ability to open tunnels between your local computer and a remote ssh server.

License: GPL (GNU General Public License)
File size: 1333K
Developer: Brisa Francesco
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Port forward is a java application which gives you the ability to open tunnels between your local computer and a remote ssh server.

Tunnels can be created both local or remote

Examples:

1. Open a local tunnel to reach a remote mysql database

Your application needs to connect to a remote database server (mysql for example), but the database server (remote.server.example) is not configured to expose mysql to internet directly.

Port forward will open a local port (3306) and redirect the connections to remote.server.example ssh server

The remote.server.example ssh server will connect to it's local mysql server

2. Open a local tunnel to use a remove VNC desktop

You want to connect to your home computer which has a vnc server but from work, the firewall blocks vnc connections (generally on port 5901)

If you have a ssh server at home, you could use it as bridge to connect to a client in your home:

Your position internet your linux ssh server ->>
-->> you client with vnc (192.168.0.40)

you office internet >

You will be now able to connect using a vncclient giving 127.0.0.1:0 as address


3. Open a remote tunnel to pilot a remote linux server non reachable through internet

In this example, you will create a remote tunnel, this will give the remote man to connect to and reach you.

I used this example if I have to pilot a remote pc, but this pc has no static IP or is behind a firewall

The good solution is to activate port forward on the pc to be piloted and to connect it to a server we can access.

PC 1 (to be piloted) --||||-- firewall ----- internet ----- accessible-server

As you can see in this situation, if firewall does not use NAT, you have no way to reah PC 1

What's New in This Release:
A button for selecting a command to execute upon connection with the server was added.
A small problem with removing items was fixed.

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