What is the difference between local port forwarding (-L) and remote port forwarding (-R)

From: Yann Laviolette (yann_laviolette_at_gnome.org)
Date: 04/27/04

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Date: 27 Apr 2004 00:10:21 -0700

Hi!

I need to do an SSH tunnel to encrypt the data sent between an agent
and a the server. I'm able to establish a tunnel but there's something
that I can't understand...

What is the difference between the bit -L and the bit -R. I've read
the man of SSH on Fedora. It's seems to be simple but in practice, I
don't understand.

Can somebody help me on this subject?

Thanks a lot!

Yann

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