SSH Local Port Forwarding

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Feb 1 16:53:00 GMT 2006


On Feb  1 08:36, Jon Dixon wrote:
> Hi Corinna,
> 
>    Thanks for all the consideration you have given this WinSock
> problem.  As a suggestion, would it be possible to add an ssh command
> line option, so the user could explicitly open the listening port in
> exclusive mode.  This would alleviate the problem of trying to second
> guess when to use SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE and when to use SO_REUSEADDR.
> 
>      For example:
>          ssh -L2001:server.com:23  -o "ExclusivePort yes"  server.com

Sorry, no.  I won't add any special options to ssh which are not
avaiable upstream.  Somehow you missed the point.  There's no reason
to change the application if the underlying library cares for that.


Corinna

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