If you want to use port forwarding, you'll need to know that for every MathLink connection, two different ports are used. The full syntax for TCPIP link names looks like this:

LinkCreate["[email protected],[email protected]", LinkProtocol -> "TCPIP"]

8000 and 8001 are the port numbers while 1.2.3.4 is your IP address. You can pass only a single port number to LinkCreate as the link name: in this case it will return a LinkObject containing the full name and the other port will be automatically selected.

However, if you want to use SSH port forwarding, I strongly recommend using the Remote Kernel Strategies package. It will save you a lot of trouble. For example, it will automatically forward ports for all three links that Mathematica needs for Front End - Kernel communication.

Please see the presentation I linked to for more information on how the connection is made and why three links are needed.

If you want to use port forwarding, you'll need to know that for every MathLink connection, two different ports are used. The full syntax for TCPIP link names looks like this:

LinkCreate["[email protected],[email protected]", LinkProtocol -> "TCPIP"]

8000 and 8001 are the port numbers while 1.2.3.4 is your IP address. You can pass only a single port number to LinkCreate as the link name: in this case it will return a LinkObject containing the full name and the other port will be automatically selected.

However, if you want to use SSH port forwarding, I strongly recommend using the Remote Kernel Strategies package. It will save you a lot of trouble. For example, it will automatically forward ports for all three links that Mathematica needs for Front End - Kernel communication ($ParentLink, MathLink`$PreemptiveLink and MathLink`$ServiceLink). The other two links are created by the kernel when the front end connects to it by executing the code in the file SystemFiles/FrontEnd/TextResources/GetFEKernelInit.tr.

Please see the presentation I linked to for more information on how the connection is made and why three links are needed.

If you want to use port forwarding, you'll need to know that for every MathLink connection, two different ports are used. The full syntax for TCPIP link names looks like this:

LinkCreate["[email protected],[email protected]", LinkProtocol -> "TCPIP"]

8000 and 8001 are the port numbers while .1.2.3.4` is your IP address.

However, if you want to use SSH port forwarding, I strongly recommend using the Remote Kernel Strategies package. It will save you a lot of trouble. For example, it will automatically forward ports for all three links that Mathematica needs for Front End - Kernel communication.

Please see the presentation I linked to for more information on how the connection is made and why three links are needed.

If you want to use port forwarding, you'll need to know that for every MathLink connection, two different ports are used. The full syntax for TCPIP link names looks like this:

LinkCreate["[email protected],[email protected]", LinkProtocol -> "TCPIP"]

8000 and 8001 are the port numbers while 1.2.3.4 is your IP address. You can pass only a single port number to LinkCreate as the link name: in this case it will return a LinkObject containing the full name and the other port will be automatically selected.

However, if you want to use SSH port forwarding, I strongly recommend using the Remote Kernel Strategies package. It will save you a lot of trouble. For example, it will automatically forward ports for all three links that Mathematica needs for Front End - Kernel communication.

Please see the presentation I linked to for more information on how the connection is made and why three links are needed.