[Durham] ssh and reverse port thingummy bob

[Richard Mortimer]

The -L option takes two port numbers. try using -L 2112:localhost:22  

Richard

Dougie Nisbet <dougie at highmoor.co.uk> wrote:

>this is really for Riccard but someone else might know.
>
>I'm trying to use ssh to login to machine2 from my home PC. Riccard
>gave me the commands and it looks promising but not quite there.
>
>On machine2 I type:
>
> ssh -R 2112:127.0.0.1:22 dougie at dougie_home
>
>and I get in no problems.
>
>At home I type:
>
>
>ssh -L 2112:localhost dougien at localhost
>
>(and many variations of this using various flags from man page)
>
>but I usually get something along the lines of:
>
>Bad local forwarding specification '2112:localhost'
>
>I can't really make head-nor-tail of the man page.
>
>Any clues?
>
>Dougie
>
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