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What is the difference between local and remote IP forwarding?

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Mar 15, 202641407 views
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What is the difference in functionality between the two? I'm a bit confused by it. Local forwarding makes a remote port locally available. Remote forwarding makes a local port remotely available. But this 'availability' will work in both directions... or does it? E.g. the following (issued from a h…

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ssh -R 1234:localhost:2345 user@work

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Yes, if I understand it correctly, local port forwarding from a to b should be identical to remote port forwarding from b to a (and vice versa). An outgoing tunnel from a to b (viewed from a) should be equal to an incoming tunnel from a to b (viewed…

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