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 ### Download
 Go and get the latest release from GitHub's release page: https://github.com/SommerEngineering/SSHTunnel/releases
 
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-**Copyright © 2015 by Thorsten Sommer**
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 *Based on damick's example code from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21417223/simple-ssh-port-forward-in-golang*