Re: SSH Tunnels on the Fly

From: Shwammi (cafucu_at_myexcel.com)
Date: 09/15/04


Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:27:53 -0600

Peter Stilling wrote:

> Does anyone know how to configure Putty or any other SSH client, to
> create an SSH Tunnel on the fly or "on demand".
> I have Admin access to a Linux based SSH Server at my house that I
> connect to from my work with Putty. I have about 10 tunnels manually
> configured on the client side, but this is starting to get old and
> tedious. Is there a way to just tell putty on the client side that if
> it hears any traffic on any port destined to 127.0.0.x to shove it
> through the tunnel AND create the tunnel on the fly?
>
> Peter Stilling

There are some SSH commands you can execute while connected that will create
a tunnel, but I don't know of anything you can use to make it "dynamic."
You might want to use plink to make the tunnel, it is smaller than PuTTY
and can be run easily from a batch script.



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