Tunneling with OpenSSH

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SSH Tunneling or SSH port forwarding is typically useful if you have a network with a private segment like this:


                                                                           -----------------------------------------------------------
                                                                          |                                                           |
                                                                          |                                                           |
                           ---------                                -----------                    --------------                     |
                          |localhost|------------------------------|   gateway |------------------|  hidden      |                    |
                           ---------                               | 10.2.2.18 |                  | 172.16.0.42  |                    |
                                                                    -----------                    --------------                     |
                                                                          |                                                           |
                                                                           -----------------------------------------------------------
ssh -L 2222:172.16.0.42:22 gateway

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