Mastering SSH Port Forwarding: Local, Remote, and Dynamic SOCKS Proxies
SSH is far more than an encrypted remote terminal—it is an extensible transport protocol capable of encapsulating arbitrary TCP traffic across segmented network boundaries, NAT gateways, and restrictive firewalls. Here is how to leverage Dynamic, Local, and Remote Reverse SSH tunnels. 1. Dynamic Port Forwarding (-D): SOCKS Proxy Dynamic port forwarding turns your SSH client into a local SOCKS5 proxy server. Any application configured to use this proxy routes its network requests through the remote SSH host. ...