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Command line options

The DIET forwarder executable takes several options to be launched: The remote port can be chosen randomly among the available TCP ports on the remote host. Sometimes, depending on the configuration of sshd, you will need to set --remote-host to localhost or 127.0.0.1 (or the address of the local loopback if it is not 127.0.0.1) for the tunnel to work correctly (in fact, most problems come from a badly configured tunnel).

In order, to activate a DIET forwarder, users must:

Rem: The forwarders must be launched before the DIET hierarchy.


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The DIET Team - Ven 18 nov 2011 18:13:39 PST