fwd

A port-forwarding utility.

Here's how it works:

1. Get the latest release of fwd
2. You install fwd on the server somewhere in your $PATH (like /usr/bin/, or .local/bin)
3. You install fwd on the client (like your laptop)
4. You run fwd on the client to connect to the server, like so:

doty@my.laptop$ fwd some.server

fwd will connect to some.server via ssh, and then show you a screen listing all of the ports that the server is listening on locally.

Use the up and down arrow keys (or j/k) to select the port you're interested in and press e to toggle forwarding of that port. Now, connections to that port locally will be forwarded to the remote server.

If the port is something that might be interesting to a web browser, you can press <ENTER> with the port selected to open a browser pointed at that port.

If something is going wrong, pressing l will toggle logs that might explain it.

Press q to quit.