

Make sure the ‘Local’ radio button is set. Now, before you start your SSH connection, go to the Tunnels panel (see section 4.26).

(You can also use a local loopback address here see below for more details.) There are likely to be plenty of unused port numbers above 3000. In order to use port forwarding to connect from your local machine to a port on a remote server, you need to:Ĭhoose a port number on your local machine where PuTTY should listen for incoming connections. For example, you could use this to connect from your home computer to a POP-3 server on a remote machine without your POP-3 password being visible to network sniffers. The SSH protocol has the ability to forward arbitrary network (TCP) connections over your encrypted SSH connection, to avoid the network traffic being sent in clear.

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