This procedure works for any TCP connection. It creates a named pipe and uses two nc instances to communicate through that pipe.

Here follows an example for RDP which uses the port 3389 TCP by default. Let’s say you want to make a RDP connection to HostD through HostJ.

In HostJ create a TCP proxy with nc:

mkfifo proxyz
nc -l -k -p 3389 < proxyz | nc __replace_with_IP_address_of_HostD__ 3389 > proxyz

Now any RDP connection to HostJ will go to HostD.

When done, stop the nc proxy with Ctrl+C and remove the named pipe:

rm proxyz

Note: You may have to enable incoming RDP connection in HostJ from HostS. If you use nftables edit /etc/nftables.conf and add a rule like:

ip saddr __replace_with_IP_address_of_HostS__ tcp dport 3389 ct state new accept

then apply the configuration with the sudo nft -f /etc/nftables.conf command. When done, remember to restore the firewall settings.

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