Port forwarding

[Matt Johnston]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 01:02:30PM +0200, Steve Comfort wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We have a WiFi device, onto which we'd like to put a web server for 
> configuration purposes. We obviously want it to be secure, and we don't 
> have enough space to put OpenSSL and an https style browser on the 
> board. So port forwarding seemed to be the answer. It is more than 
> possible that I don't understand port forwarding correctly, but anyways ...
> 
> I am trying the following command on my PC :
> 
>       ssh -N -f -L 8000:[IP Address of device]:80 root at device

The IP address is from the perspective of "device", so try
"-L 8000:localhost:80" instead and see how that goes.

Let me know if that doesn't work.

Matt

> PS: For you Aussies from a serf efrican - congrats on a great 
> performance by Ricky Ponting this morning :) Maybe we'll manage to beat 
> you in one next month :) (And maybe pigs will fly)

Heh, we'll see ;)