Re: Forwarding ports via ssh

["Bill Horne-9" <user=27@nabble.blu.org>]

 John Abreau wrote: 
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Bill Horne <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 
>   
>>  I can ssh into the debian box at the corporate site with no problems. 
>>  However, when I use 
>> 
>>  ssh -L 40110:10.0.0.2:110 <Comcast dynamic ip> 
>> 
>>  ... from the Debian box on my local lan, it sets up an ssh session to 
>>     
> 
> 
> This sets up a tunnel so when you connect to port 40110 on localhost 
> (127.0.0.1), it will tunnel that to the remote end at <Comcast dynamic ip> 
> and <Comcast dynamic ip> will then pass it to port 110 on 10.0.0.2. 
> It will also connect you to a login shell on <Comcast dynamic ip>. 
> 
> Try pointing thunderbird to 127.0.0.1:40110