Questions tagged [port-forwarding]
Port forwarding is the act of using redirecting one port to another, commonly used to access a computer from behind a firewall with NAT.
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What is port forwarding and what is it used for?
There are a lot of questions on 'port forwarding', but there doesn't seem to be one that clearly states what it is and what it's used for. So:
What is port forwarding?
What is it used for, and why ...
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How do I remove an SSH forwarded port
I used ssh -L 10002:192.168.0.30:10002 192.168.1.135 to establish port forwarding but now I need to remove it.
How do I do this?
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Differences between ssh -L to -D
I'm trying to understand the differences between ssh -L to -D.
Is there anything else except for that -D is SOCKS only?
Thanks!
Marvin
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Tunneling a TCP/IP Connection through Remote Desktop Connection
There is a remote Windows server on a private network which I can connect to via Remote Desktop Connection. I would like to be able to make TCP/IP connections from my computer to other computers on ...
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Can I make SSH fail when a port forwarding fails?
If I do a remote port forward, a la -R 3690:localhost:3690 when a binding already exists on the port on the remote host, I get this warning:
Warning: remote port forwarding failed for listen port ...
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How to make a port forward in Mac OS X
I'd like to make all incoming connections to port 1000 of my host (IP: 200.234.XXX.XXX) to be forward to the port 80 on host 10.211.55.5
How can I do it on my host? It is running Mac OS X 10.5.8
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Possible to "ping" url:port? (OS X-GeekTool)
I'm trying to use GeekTool (Mac pref pane... basically just embeds output of a shell command/script on the desktop... http://lifehacker.com/#!244026/geek-to-live--monitor-your-mac-and-more-with-...
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No idea what is listening on port 80 in OS X
I'm on OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.3, and I've freshly rebooted my Mac.
I want to start a service (like Apache on port 80), but there is already something going on with port 80:
telnet localhost 80
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How does port-forwarding help in torrents?
I use Transmission to download files but it says that a certain port is required to be opened. However, while this port is closed I noticed that I can still download files with no problem. But when I ...
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SSH: Troubleshooting "Remote port forwarding failed for listen port" errors
Question: Why does ssh -N -R 2222:localhost:22 <bluehost_user>@<bluehost_ip> result in a "Remote port forwarding failed for listen port" error? The objective is to establish a ...
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Are there good alternative HTTP ports rather than port 80?
I have been looking for some documentation on alternatives to port forwarding to port 80. I have a dedicated Linux machine on a home router, and apparently utilizing port 80 is not an option.
Are ...
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Chrome ssh tunnel forwarding
I am first logging into an ssh server. Then I am trying to use Chrome for ssh tunnel forwarding. Is there a gui way of doing this? I can do this in Firefox's gui in like 10 seconds so I would think ...
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DD-WRT: How to allow port forwarding to apply to requests originating from inside the LAN?
With the original firmware of my router I had port forwarding defined from port 80 to the server in the LAN, which I used in conjunction with an external dynamic DNS service.
I've now upgraded to DD-...
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NAT vs. port forwarding [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is port forwarding and what is it used for?
What is the difference between NAT and port forwarding? Are they two different names for the same thing? What would be a short ...
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Set up a web server behind a Carrier Grade NAT
I was trying to set up a small home server.
I use dynamic IP adress. My router's wan adress is like this 100.70.81.xxx and my public ip is 81.213.177.xx
I made port forwarding in my router. www, ...
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