SSH Tunneling — Remote Wireshark and Virtual Network Function Troubleshooting

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Introduction

SSH Tunneling is very useful for SSH clients and servers to utilize their local and remote resources respectively over one or multiple chained SSH sessions. Broadly speaking, there are three types of SSH tunnelings namely the:

• Local Port Forwarding — Forward a local application (e.g., a…