Re: listening on network interface instead on ip addr.

From: Richard E. Silverman (slade@shore.net)
Date: 03/14/03 

From: slade@shore.net (Richard E. Silverman)
Date: 14 Mar 2003 09:45:10 -0500

>>>>> "PS" == Pontus Skoeld <pont_nyscss@soua.net> writes:

    PS> "m96" <m96@gmx.li> writes:
>> i just wanted to know if it's possible to letting ssh listen on a
>> specific networking interface instead of ip addresses?

    PS> Assuming OpenSSH/Sun SSH: man sshd_config, search for
    PS> ListenAdress.

If you do this yourself, you will see that ListenAdress only allows you to
specify a hostname or address, not an interface as the poster is asking.

OP, OpenSSH doesn't do what you want -- I would have it bind to 0.0.0.0,
and use a packet filter to limit access to the appropriate interface. 

-- 
  Richard Silverman
  slade@shore.net

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