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Date:      Sun, 8 Jun 2003 10:24:48 -0700
From:      Jim Mock <mij@soupnazi.org>
To:        Josh Brooks <user@mail.econolodgetulsa.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How do I set up a ssh tunnel between two FreeBSD systems ?
Message-ID:  <1B344A61-99D6-11D7-BA68-000393460DB2@soupnazi.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030607213312.S81042-100000@mail.econolodgetulsa.com>

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On Saturday, June 7, 2003, at 09:36  PM, Josh Brooks wrote:
> Hello,

Hi,

> I have read the ssh man page and am not getting the results I think I 
> should.  some background:
>
> serverA is the client
>
> serverB is running sendmail on port 25
>
> I want to telnet to serverA on port 34 and get a response from the 
> sendmail daemon running on serverB.
>
> I tried this:
>
> ssh -L 34:serverB:25 user@serverB
>
> ^^^ seems to be what the man page instructs me to do ...
>
> But when I run that command, it asks me for a password, and I log into 
> serverB just like any other time I ssh there to log in.
>
> So that's that - the above command line does nothing but log me into 
> serverB.  If I port scan serverA, nothing is running on port 34.  So 
> basically it's a total bust.
>
> I am running this ssh command on serverA as root.
>
> So what am i doing wrong ?

Take a look at http://soupnazi.org/freebsdzine/200104/tunnel.php for an 
article I wrote a few a years ago about this.

- jim

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jim mock    mij@{soupnazi|opendarwin}.org    jim@{bsdnews|FreeBSD}.org
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