Comments on: Chaining SSH Tunnels http://www.kerrybuckley.org/2008/12/15/chaining-ssh-tunnels/ What's the simplest thing that could possibly go wrong? Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:08:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Phil Howard http://www.kerrybuckley.org/2008/12/15/chaining-ssh-tunnels/comment-page-1/#comment-54280 Phil Howard Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:08:30 +0000 http://www.kerrybuckley.org/2008/12/15/chaining-ssh-tunnels/#comment-54280 ssh -t foo ssh -t bar ssh -t -p222 dave@wibble ssh -t dest Welcome to dest is one command line and no backgrounds to clean up. This is better if all you want is the shell session at dest. End to end port forwarding does not work and has to be explicitly chained. But that can still be done all in one command by making each ssh step connect to the next with the appropriate -L on each. ssh -t foo ssh -t bar ssh -t -p222 dave@wibble ssh -t dest

Welcome to dest is one command line and no backgrounds to clean up.

This is better if all you want is the shell session at dest. End to end port forwarding does not work and has to be explicitly chained. But that can still be done all in one command by making each ssh step connect to the next with the appropriate -L on each.

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