SSH config for multiple hops in Linux
Often some hosts in corporate network are available only from several gateway machines. The scheme looks like that: you connect to gateway ssh -A gateway.public.net
and then to desired host from gateway machines ssh -A host.private.net
. But the problem arises when you want to copy or download something from host.private.net. You have to do it in two hops, because host.private.net
is not available from your machine directly. The solution is ssh forwarding.