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Setup up a Paramiko/SSH port forwarding tunnel (like openssh -L option).

The tunnel is used to transport X2Go graphics data through a proxy application like nxproxy.

Parameters:

• local_host (int) - local starting point of the forwarding tunnel
• local_port (int) - listen port of the local starting point
• remote_host (str) - from the endpoint of the tunnel, connect to host <remote_host>...
• remote_port (int) - ... on port <remote_port>
• ssh_transport (obj) - the Paramiko/SSH transport (i.e. the X2Go session's Paramiko/SSH transport object)
• session_instance (obj) - the X2GoSession instance that initiates this tunnel
• session_name (str) - the session name of the X2Go session this port forwarding server belongs to
• logger (obj) - an X2GoLogger object

Returns: obj

returns an X2GoFwServer instance

Tear down a given Paramiko/SSH port forwarding tunnel.

Parameters:

• fw_server (obj) - an X2GoFwServer instance as returned by the start_forward_tunnel() function