Port forwarding using proxypass in local machine

Consider a scenario, where a jumpbox has port access to a server and your local machine doesn’t have access. Here is a solution that you can apply that will redirect your request to jumpbox and you can access the server using loop back IP address from your local machine.

ssh -L:<SOURCEPORT>:IPADDRESS:<DESTINATIONPORT> userid@<JUMPBOXIPADDRESS>

Where,

SOURCEPORT – Local Port number

IPADDRESS- Remote Server IP address

DESTINATIONPORT- Remote server port number

JUMPBOXIPADDRESS – Server which has access to remote server IP address

Eg:

Configure RDP port forwarding request from local machine to remote server using jumpbox.

ssh -L 3389:IPADDRESS:3389 root@JUMPBOXIP

Let’s try access RDP using 127.0.0.1.

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