Port forwarding, or tunneling, is a way to forward normally non-secure TCP/IP traffic through an SSH connection. You would normally need it any time you have traffic over a public network, such as the Internet, that you don’t want anyone to snoop on. More information is available elsewhere on our website.

To set it up in TinyTERM version 4.3 or higher, do the following:

1. Open a new session in TinyTERM.
2. Click on the Edit menu and select Session Properties.
3. Change the connection type to SSH and click the Apply button.
4. Click on the Port Forwarding tab.
5. Enter a name for the connection.
6. Choose whether to forward a local TCP/IP port to a remote host (Local to remote forwarding), or forward a remote port to the local PC (Remote to local forwarding).
7. Enter the local port that will forward or receive forwarding.
8. If the SSH server is not the remote system, check the “Remote host is different machine from SSH server machine” box and enter the hostname or IP address of the SSH server.
9. Enter the TCP/IP port for the remote host.
10. Enter the name of the local PC application to run, or click the Browse button to select one. Enter any command-line parameters for the local PC application.
11. Click the Add button to add the connection to the list.

The next time you open this TinyTERM session, the port forwarding you set up will be active. Sample application setups are available here.

CR 385, added in TinyTERM Plus 4.30

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