Together with ForwardPort, this
property will make wodSSH create a tunnel through its
connection with the server to some other host/port, thus
enabling you to transmit data travel across the
network in encrypted form - between your host and the ForwardHost using SSH.
For more info, please look at the help for the ForwardPort property.
Please note that if you set
ForwardHost = "127.0.0.1"
(127.0.0.1 is the default value) then the tunnel that is created will
end up on the remote server because localhost is interpreted at the remote end.
If you put a real IP value into the ForwardHost property,
then only the connection between your computer and the
remote server over SSH will be encrypted. The Connection
between the remote server with SSH and the server referenced in the
ForwardHost property, will be in plaintext.
However, if you look beyond this you will see that you
could, for example, connect to your private
network (which is behind a firewall) from the Internet. You could connect
to your firewall server with wodSSH and then set ForwardHost to point to an address on your private network, say
'192.168.1.1', which is a valid IP address for
the firewall server (in this example). This way you will be
able to access a computer o your private network, to which a direct connection isn't normally available.
All of the above applies only if you have proper login
and password combination for the firewall server of course ;)
ForwardHost
Property
