Dropbear patch to specify the listening address via the "-p" command line switch

Matt Johnston matt at ucc.asn.au
Thu Feb 22 23:09:47 WST 2007


On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 05:34:37PM +0100, Max-Gerd Retzlaff wrote:
> Until now "-p" has only taken a port as its argument, to specify
> a particular port Dropbear should listen to. With my patch it accepts
> an optional listening address in addition to the port: "-p [address:]port".
> If the address is not given Dropbear will listen for every address,
> as it does without the patch. Now you can also call it this way:
>    dropbear -g -p 127.0.0.1:22 -p 192.168.100.100:22 -p 2323
> The "-h" help is updated, as well.

Thanks for the patch - I'd been meaning to implement this
for a while :) It should be in the next release.

Cheers,
Matt


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