Opening and closing the tunnel manually

If you do not need remote control of the tunnel, you can also open the tunnel manually. For each tunnel that you need to create, you will need to create a client and download the supplied script because it contains the parameters related to tunnel creation (see Replacing the supplied client python script with your own activation mechanism).

To start a tunnel using the openssh, type the following:

  ssh -N -i PATH_TO_PRIVATE_KEY -R IPORT:localhost:PORT_TO_FORWARD UNIX_USERNAME@FORWARDING_SERVER

Using the values from the previous example, the command would look like this:

  ssh -N -i id_rsa -R 10248:localhost:22 HbN9EerI5QkA7PWGc32NItpSwICKpe@fw1.sshreach.me