{"id":137921,"date":"2021-12-03T15:10:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T20:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=137921"},"modified":"2023-03-21T16:05:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T20:05:44","slug":"port-forwarding","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/research\/system-usage\/connect-scc\/port-forwarding\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Forwarding"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Overview<\/h2>\n

Port forwarding allows you to forward a specific port from a remote server to your local computer. This is useful for working with some applications that present streams of information or communicate over a port.<\/p>\n

Do not use port forwarding for graphics windows or programs with graphical user interfaces. Due to the ease of use and excellent performance of the SCC OnDemand<\/a> system’s Desktop session, we recommended its use for these purposes.<\/strong><\/div>\n

When forwarding a network port you need to choose a local port number and the port number on the remote system. Typically the remote port number is set by the remote program that you’re connecting to.\u00a0 For example, the remote program could use port 5904 as shown here.\u00a0 The local port number is one that you pick. Most of the time any reasonable number greater than 1024 will work – if the port forwarding command tries to use a local port already in use by a running program it will fail with an error message. In these examples a local port value of 7070 is chosen. A local program you run that tries to communicate over local port 7070 will have its network communication forwarded to the remote program listening on port 5904.<\/p>\n

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