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==Why?== | ==Why?== | ||
One example of why port forwarding is great is security. Downloading email and browsing the Internet in such a way that the immediate (local) network does not know what you are doing. All it sees is encrypted SSH traffic, like that used when you type on RedBrick normally. | One example of why port forwarding is great is security. Downloading email and browsing the Internet in such a way that the immediate (local) network does not know what you are doing. All it sees is encrypted SSH traffic, like that used when you type on RedBrick normally. | ||
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remote port: 6667 | remote port: 6667 | ||
So for this it is instead using a local forward. So unlike the dynamic forward, instead set the option to be local, and add the | So for this it is instead using a local forward. So unlike the dynamic forward, instead set the option to be local, and add the destination as being irc.redbrick.dcu.ie:6667 | ||
On CLI this is: | On CLI this is: | ||