Debian: Tunnel incoming connections (SSH)

Question

Hey! Is it possible to use a SSH connection to tunnel incoming traffic to server1 to server2, so server1 acts like a proxy? Or is there a better way to do it? Cross-server connection should be encrypted.

Answer 1

yes you can do add this to ~/.ssh/config on the source machine.

Host host-name
Hostname host-name-or-ip
LocalForward 5900 destination:5900

Then

ssh -v host-name

Now when you connect to port 5900 on the source machine you are connected to 5900 on the remote machine.

Answer 2

Or you could use -L or -R params from command line.