Port forwarding plays an important role while you develop, share,e and access things online. As a cybersecurity learner or expert, you may sometimes be required to expose your local files on the Internet or while connecting in your penetration testing process.

In this guide, we will learn about Telebit.io a free and professional port forwarding service that is easy to configure on your system.

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Table Of Content

What is port forwarding?
Why it was important for developers and penetration testers.
What is Telebit for port forwarding and use it.
How do you free port forward HTTP, TCP, SSH, etc.
Conclusion

What is port forwarding?

The term port refers to the protocol of networking and forwarding means transfer, and the final word port forwarding represents to transfer of a port to other(s).

For example, if you have created a website and want to share it with your college friends, you can expose it on the Internet by port-forwarding and then share the URL of your website with them.

Why it was important for developers and penetration testers.

Usually, you have to pay for a lifetime port forwarding service like if you have created a website on your local system and later you want to make it accessible globally as we mentioned in the example above. Because you can turn on your PC 24/7 to make your website live all the time.

So in our case, we want to establish a connection or transfer data over the Internet, which means we want to forward our local network port to anyone on a different network, in other words, we can say we want to switch from LAN (Local Area Network) to WAN (Wide Area Network) . As a cybersecurity expert or developer, you may need a temporary connection then you can use free port forwarding services like this.

What is Telebit for port forwarding and use it

It is a free service created by AJ ONeal hosted on GitHub to help developers to host their local ports to a wide area network very quickly with just a single command. Here are some features of Telebit as shown.

Use it to test your webhooks.
Use it to work from 127.0.0.1
Use it to test your site.
Use it for access to raspberry pie
Use it to create reverse connections.

How do you free port forward HTTP, TCP, SSH, etc.

You can download Telebit from their official website according to your operating system and type the following commands for Mac & Linux users

curl -fsSL https://get.telebit.io | bash

For Local Development

~/telebit http 3000

For Sharing Files

~/telebit http ./project.zip

For Access with SSH

~/telebit ssh auto

For TPC connection

~/telebit tcp 9000

Now enjoy this free service in the way you like and make sure to save bookmarks for daily future posts.

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Conclusion

In this blog, we learned about the concept of port forwarding and its importance and also about Telebit a free port forwarding service that was easy to install and quick to use.

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