Hi,

Im trying to set up ssh local port forward.
But I dont know the ports to connect to on the remote machine
beforehand.

Is it possible to setup forward for a range of ports?


thanks
rc

You can specify multiple ports to forward on the command line, or
establish a VPN if you have the need for UDP. See:

http://www.securitybulletins.com/med...SSH_Tunnelling

for info on both types.

Doug

On 21 Nov 2006 15:57:54 -0800
chandranramesh@gmail.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Im trying to set up ssh local port forward.
> But I dont know the ports to connect to on the remote machine
> beforehand.
>
> Is it possible to setup forward for a range of ports?

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In article <1164153474.108673.130230@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups .com>
chandranramesh@gmail.com writes:
>
>Im trying to set up ssh local port forward.
>But I dont know the ports to connect to on the remote machine
>beforehand.

You could perhaps use OpenSSH's "dynamic" port forwarding, i.e. SOCKS -
see the -D option.

>Is it possible to setup forward for a range of ports?

Not as such (with OpenSSH), though (with OpenSSH) you can AFAIK give any
number of -L options - i.e. a range is just a matter of giving one -L
option for every port in the range. A bit verbose, but the end result
would be the same - ssh (any flavour) would need to open a separate
socket for every port in the range, there's no such thing as wildcarding
or "ranging" the port in the socket API.

--Per Hedeland
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