Comments on: How To: Tunnel Connections Over SSH http://klkl.co.uk/2008/12/30/how-to-tunnel-connections-over-ssh/ it's easy to type Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:41:37 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: klkl http://klkl.co.uk/2008/12/30/how-to-tunnel-connections-over-ssh/comment-page-1/#comment-103 klkl Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:07:40 +0000 http://klkl.co.uk/?p=131#comment-103 Thanks for the useful information. It worked out of the box on my service provider's server possibly with the exception of TCPKeepAlive. Thanks for the useful information. It worked out of the box on my service provider’s server possibly with the exception of TCPKeepAlive.

]]> By: theboywho http://klkl.co.uk/2008/12/30/how-to-tunnel-connections-over-ssh/comment-page-1/#comment-102 theboywho Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:56:18 +0000 http://klkl.co.uk/?p=131#comment-102 This wouldn't work with the default setup of MySQL or SSH (on Gentoo at least). For the MySQL part to work, the server has to have been set-up to listen on the loopback interface. This is done by removing the 'skip-networking' line from the [mysqld] section in my.cnf and adding a line like this: bind-address = 127.0.0.1 For the SSH server the following options need to be set in sshd.conf for it to accept tunnelling requests: AllowTCPForwarding Yes GatewayPorts Yes This one is probably a good idea so your connection doesn't get dropped: TCPKeepAlive Yes This wouldn’t work with the default setup of MySQL or SSH (on Gentoo at least).

For the MySQL part to work, the server has to have been set-up to listen on the loopback interface. This is done by removing the ’skip-networking’ line from the [mysqld] section in my.cnf and adding a line like this:

bind-address = 127.0.0.1

For the SSH server the following options need to be set in sshd.conf for it to accept tunnelling requests:

AllowTCPForwarding Yes
GatewayPorts Yes

This one is probably a good idea so your connection doesn’t get dropped:

TCPKeepAlive Yes

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