5.7. Forwarding

Forwarding (or tunneling) is the use of SSH to protect another network service. We discuss it in detail in Chapter 9, but here we describe the available serverwide configuration options.

5.7.1. 5.7.1 Port Forwarding

SSH's forwarding (or tunneling) features protect other TCP/IP-based applications by encrypting their connections. We cover forwarding in great detail in Chapter 9, but we introduce here the serverwide configuration keywords for controlling it.