Re: portforward question cygwin vs putty

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_dodgy.net.au)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 11:01:04 +0000 (UTC)

In article <fdu*GQMwq@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
Jacob Nevins <jacobn@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>AP <adamp@indra.com> writes:
>>Thanks for your response. So what is putty doing to intercept the ip
>>address/port and forward it? Is there anyway to do that using other tools in
>>cygwin?
>
>PuTTY isn't doing anything particularly special.
>
>As part of an application's setting up of a listening socket, as well as
>a port, it can specify an address to the bind() call, which is part of
>the socket abstraction used on many platforms. PuTTY simply allows the
>user to configure what address is passed into bind(); an application
>such as OpenSSH could easily do something similar. (We allow the
>extended syntax "-L [localIP:]localport:remoteIP:remoteport" to specify
>this on the command line; a similar extension could be made to OpenSSH's
>syntax.)

This is an open enhancement request for OpenSSH and there's a patch
that needs testing:
http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=413 

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