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syba4ever
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Apr 16, 2021

ssh tunneling to BIGIP management GUI

Hello,   I would like to set up a SSH tunneling to bigip management web port (443). I applied to following ssh command on my laptop: # ssh -L 8443:127.0.0.1:443 <login>@<bigip address ip> This...
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Simon_Blakely
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Apr 25, 2021

> channel 3: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed

 

You are correct - the ssh server config on the BigIP does not allow port-forwarding.