port forwarding

[Ameet Chaubal]

Hi all

I am having trouble forwarding a port from machine A to Machine B.
I have gone thr' the docs but am not able to progress much further.
I need to forward a port for eg. 82 on machine A (class C) to port 80 on
machine B (192.168.x.x. reserved address).
I  tried ssh2 username@machineB -L 82:machineA:80. But that didn't seem to
work.
What is the correct procedure to forward a port? Any caveats.
What about the performance.

Thanks for any insight.

Ameet Chaubal