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Port Forward on Linux with xinitd#

Introdcution#

I need a service listening on port 443 and forwarding this traffic to port 6061.

Setup#

Install xinitd

yum install xinetd

Setup the config file

vi /etc/xinetd.d/http-switch

service http-switch
{
 disable = no
 type = UNLISTED
 socket_type = stream
 protocol = tcp
 wait = no
 redirect = 127.0.0.1 6061
 bind = 0.0.0.0
 port = 443
 user = nobody
}

service xinetd restart