Connection Forwarder

CRX ID

ahaijnonphgkgnkbklchdhclailflinn

Status

Live on Store

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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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Description from store

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

Gaming Gamer521 2024-03-13: 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.
Peter Wurm 2023-12-29: Couldn't connect from local network to my server on chrome os. Now I am able to :)
Anton Bryntesson 2023-04-04: 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.
Daniel hickey 2021-06-20: 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.
siam bet 2021-02-13: good
Roland Marcus Rutschmann 2020-10-31: Worked great but now I have to remove and reinstall the app after every OS-update.
Nazmul I 2020-10-14: 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.
Andrew Womersley 2020-04-08: Awesome for port forwarding web development testing from external devices. Also, makes 'localhost' point to linux container. A
Jeroen Kenters 2020-03-18: 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.
Garth Johnson 2020-03-07: 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. :)
Daniel Gomez 2020-02-04: good info
Ago Yakus 2020-01-13: 5 stars no less
Randy Barrett 2019-12-02: 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.
Jason Grima 2019-11-29: Made local dev on my pixelbook so much more practical!
Andy Collcott 2019-11-23: Finally a way to access chromeos containers easily! Amazing.
Shared Williamson 2019-11-15: This app saved me a lot of time and effort. Thanks
Oskar Vihriälä 2019-08-09: works perfectly. exactly what i need for node.js developement in the linux container.
Nick McAvoy 2019-07-23: This is exactly what i needed! Works as expected! This really saved my day, thanks developer dude!
Yuchen Ying 2019-06-25: Reliable and helpful. Thanks for the work!
Tambe Barsbay 2019-06-12: Works exactly as advertised. A must for developing on a Chromebook.
Sriram “sriramvenkataramani1” Venkataramani 2019-05-26: 0 is designator for switch position in phonograph-3positions 01 is standby,02 is on,03 is radio on.
Carlos Filho 2019-04-11: Perfect !! Very very simple...
Christopher Frazier 2019-04-03: Perfect tool for working with servers in Crostini containers.
Bradley Taniguchi 2019-02-18: Worked for me and saved me tons of time :D
Dean Chouinard 2019-01-17: Works great. Used it to set up communication between distributed Elixir nodes.
David Jansen 2018-11-10: Very handy for accessing services running under Debian in the lxc container on Pixelbook !
Clive Haworth 2018-10-10: 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!
Anonymous 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
Anonymous 2018-07-11: Simple to use. Makes linux host easier to access.
Alex 2018-06-23: Great and very useful app! Addition thanks for making it Open Source!
Kyle Graehl 2018-04-26: 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.

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