Re: Iptables routing via SSH tunnel

Hi guys, thanks for the replies.

Alain, I took your advise and worked like a charm. Thanks a lot! :)

Cheers,
Vip

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Alain Williams <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 01:19:25AM +0100, Vipul Agarwal wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I have two linux servers with root access and an external database server
> > which is managed by someone else.
> > Initially, only one of my server can access this external database server
> > while the other can't due to IP restriction.
> >
> > I want to enable access to this external database server to my other
> linux
> > server temporarily as it'll take few days to get the IP added to the
> > firewall.
> > I think this can be done using a SSH tunnel. Please help me writing the
> > correct iptables rules to route all the traffic to a specific IP/port via
> > the SSH tunnel.
>
> If this is for a couple of days you may be able to do it via ssh.
> Reconfigure the database client to connect to localhost. If the server
> that you
> are connecting to is mysql it will listen on port 3306.
>
> On the client machine run:
>
>    ssh -L 3306:0:3306 database_server_machine
>
> ssh will carry (forward/tunnel) requests on the client machine port 3306
> to port
> 3306 on the server.
>
> A hack - but might be easier for a couple of days.
>
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Vipul Agarwal

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