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SOCKS vs. SSH local port forwarding

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Mar 15, 202610564 views
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What's the difference between using SOCKS (SSH -D) and local port forwarding (SSH -L)

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Fix for: SOCKS vs. SSH local port forwarding

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With , SSH forwards all connections to a fixed destination. When you connect to the local port, all data you send goes straight to the remote host which you specified in . This, obviously, requires you to know which host you want to forward connecti…

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