I was wondering if someone could push me in the right direction to using the Net::SSH::Perl module to forward a local port to a port on a remote machine via ssh.

I am looking for the same functionality of the unix/linux ssh client with the -L arguement.

Such as:

ssh -l username hostname -L 3333:hostname:5432

If you can't tell I pulled that from the postgresql documentation and thats exactly what I would like to do with this perl module. I would like to have "built-in" encrypted traffic for my database connection with my application.

Any general information (or specific if you wanna be really really nice) would be really really really appreciated.

Thanks!!!

In reply to Port Forwarding with Net::SSH::Perl? by justind

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