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

Erik Hovland erik at hovland.org
Fri Feb 23 02:28:58 WST 2007


On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 09:05:39AM -0800, Erik Hovland wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 11:09:47PM +0900, Matt Johnston wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> 0.49 or the one after? Just curious for packaging purposes.

Never mind, I just read the change log for 0.49. It didn't make it. Not
a problem.

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