FTP tunneling query

[Matt Johnston]

Hi,

Dropbear doesn't know anything particular about FTP. I
suspect that forwarding FTP through dropbear (or any other
SSH server) won't work very well, given they dynamic
port allocation. Perhaps OpenSSH client with socks
forwarding might work?

Cheers,
Matt

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 06:05:08PM +0530, Sourav Chakraborty wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> Does the ssh client send explicit forward requests for the FTP tunneling control as well as the data connections or does the SSH server snoop  the FTP packets and forwards the data channels automatically? 
> 
> Rgds
> Sourav
>