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Setup RDP forwarding - Zero Trust RDP connections to server VMs behind NAT

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In simple terms: it’s a combination of

  • application level routing (Network Address Translation via a reverse tunnel which translates between HTTP and TCP for example),

  • authentication (TOTP, PINs, …),

  • DNS management and

  • protocol encapsulation.

You can archive roughly the same with SSH reverse shells and tunnels. But you won’t, because you want someone else to simplify this for you. At scale.

Table of Contents

1. install cloudflared on the Server

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I use the Systemd integration on Debian 12 here. .

Use Case: cloudflared on a Linux KVM host

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