# Local Port Forwards

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```shell
# Local Port Forwarding (using rinetd)

# Target Machine // 10.0.0.1
Python -m SimpleHTTPServer 80

# Gateway Machine
apt-get install rinetd
nano /etc/rinetd.conf
    localhost    localport    remotehost    remoteport     
    127.0.0.1    53            10.0.0.1    80

# Kali Machine // http://gatway:53 → http://10.0.0.1:80
```

```shell
# Local Port Forwarding (using netcat)

# Target Machine // 10.0.0.1
nc -lnvp 22

# Gateway Machine
mknod relaynode p
nc -lvnp 1111 0<relaynode | nc 10.0.0.1 22 1>relaynode

# Kali Machine
nc gateway 1111
```

```shell
# Local Port Forwarding (using SSH)

# Target Machine // 10.0.0.1
Python -m SimpleHTTPServer 80

# Gateway Machine
nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
    Port 53

# Kali Machine
// Now we will connect to the gateway through ssh on port 53, then we will connect
// port 8080 on the internal machine with port 80 on the web server machine. 
ssh user@gateway -p 53 -L 127.0.0.1:8080:10.0.0.1:80
// Now browse to http://127.0.0.1:8080 -> http://10.0.0.1:80
```


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