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Open source Chromebook app for forwarding connections from/to different ports and interfaces (or to internal android IP)…
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Open source Chromebook app for forwarding connections from/to different ports and interfaces (or to internal android IP)
https://github.com/kzahel/connection-forwarder
Release History
2017-11-08 - Initial Release
Latest reviews
- (2024-03-13) Gaming Gamer521: I love this app. I need it to access my websocket I wrote in javascript in the linux environment. Google is unfortunately ending support for chrome apps, Which means once that happens, I can't use this, and I won't be able to access my websocket anymore.
- (2023-12-29) Peter Wurm: Couldn't connect from local network to my server on chrome os. Now I am able to :)
- (2023-04-04) Anton Bryntesson: The App itself is good, but every time I shut down my computer, it's impossible to open the app (and it doesnt work in the background, even if I choose that as an option). To make it work I have to uninstall and install it again, and set the rules once agian, every time I want to use it.
- (2021-06-20) Daniel hickey: I have been using for a while, works well. However lately when I shut down my chromebook and reboot, the app will not open. When i click the icon, the chromebook menu disappears but nothing happens. Uninstalling and reinstalling fixes the problem.
- (2021-02-13) siam bet: good
- (2020-10-31) Roland Marcus Rutschmann: Worked great but now I have to remove and reinstall the app after every OS-update.
- (2020-10-14) Nazmul I: Excellent app for enabling ssh in crostini! Use `hostname -I` to get the target IP address for the crostini container when creating the port forwarding rule for ssh.
- (2020-04-08) Andrew Womersley: Awesome for port forwarding web development testing from external devices. Also, makes 'localhost' point to linux container. A
- (2020-03-18) Jeroen Kenters: Works great. Used it to forward the Folding At Home client port on the Chromebook so that I can control/monitor it from my PC. Definitely going to use this for other purposes that require services to run on the Linux container.
- (2020-03-07) Garth Johnson: Oh, wow. Thank you for this! This is a totally required functionality for developers on ChromeOS! I was attempting to develop a Django application locally on my Pixel Slate and could _not_ for the life of me get to the site from anything but the local system until I loaded and used this app. That said, since I am developing in the Crostini environment on the Slate, the address is NOT the same as the Android one and for some reason was not in the drop-down options during configuration - I had to manually add it. I hope this will be an automatic option at some point in the future - manual or not, you are still my hero - thank you. :)
- (2020-02-04) Daniel Gomez: good info
- (2020-01-13) Ago Yakus: 5 stars no less
- (2019-12-02) Randy Barrett: Amazing app - thanks for your efforts. Since you asked for feedback: I agree with one of the other reviewers that the ability to turn on/off logs to see what's going on would be great.
- (2019-11-29) Jason Grima: Made local dev on my pixelbook so much more practical!
- (2019-11-23) Andy Collcott: Finally a way to access chromeos containers easily! Amazing.
- (2019-11-15) Shared Williamson: This app saved me a lot of time and effort. Thanks
- (2019-08-09) Oskar Vihriälä: works perfectly. exactly what i need for node.js developement in the linux container.
- (2019-07-23) Nick McAvoy: This is exactly what i needed! Works as expected! This really saved my day, thanks developer dude!
- (2019-06-25) Yuchen Ying: Reliable and helpful. Thanks for the work!
- (2019-06-12) Tambe Barsbay: Works exactly as advertised. A must for developing on a Chromebook.
- (2019-05-26) Sriram “sriramvenkataramani1” Venkataramani: 0 is designator for switch position in phonograph-3positions 01 is standby,02 is on,03 is radio on.
- (2019-04-11) Carlos Filho: Perfect !! Very very simple...
- (2019-04-03) Christopher Frazier: Perfect tool for working with servers in Crostini containers.
- (2019-02-18) Bradley Taniguchi: Worked for me and saved me tons of time :D
- (2019-01-17) Dean Chouinard: Works great. Used it to set up communication between distributed Elixir nodes.
- (2018-11-10) David Jansen: Very handy for accessing services running under Debian in the lxc container on Pixelbook !
- (2018-10-10) Clive Haworth: No idea why Android on ChromeOS needs its own network interface... ...but this Chrome App can forward connections from localhost in ChromeOS to the Android network interface. Really useful. As a suggestion it might be good to log what's going on or show some indication packets are being forwarded. Many thanks for your efforts!
- (2018-08-12) Works as expected. Saved the day to develop on my Pixelbook for OAuth2 apps using localhost redirects while running the apps in crostini. +1
- (2018-07-11) Simple to use. Makes linux host easier to access.
- (2018-06-23) Alex: Great and very useful app! Addition thanks for making it Open Source!
- (2018-04-26) Kyle Graehl: Just released the app today. Please send me any feedback or bug reports! You might find this useful for forwarding ports to crostini container IP or android container IP addresses.