UDP traffic through SSH tunnel
Problem
The title pretty much sums it up. I would like to send UDP traffic through a SSH tunnel. Specifically, I need to be able to send UDP packets through the tunnel and have the server be able to send them back to me on the other side. I know how to do it for TCP connections. Is this it possible with UDP?
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Fix for: UDP traffic through SSH tunnel
This small guide tells you how to send UDP traffic via SSH using tools that come standard (ssh,nc,mkfifo) with most UNIX-like operating systems. Performing UDP tunneling through an SSH connection Step by step Open a TCP forward port with your SSH connection On your local machine (local), connect to the distant machine (server) by SSH, with the additional -L option so that SSH will do TCP port-forwarding: This will allow TCP connections on the port number 6667 of your local machine to be forward…
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