can't do local port forwarding / question

[Guylhem Aznar]

Hello

> Try running dropbear with '-F -E' and see if it prints any
> error messages. I don't see why it wouldn't work, though

Sorry, it doesnt (besides the usual messages such as No backgrouding,
Child connection from..., pubkey auth succeeded)

I just get errors like:
# channel 5: open failed: connect failed:

(full log send by private message to avoid clogging the list)

> did you mean "-L 1938:localhost:3128", and "localhost:1938"
> in the browser

My mistake - it's a typo. Should be 3128 all the way, but your version
should work too.

I also tried in my .ssh/config
  LocalForward 3128 localhost:3128

It works with openssh, not with dropbear. I don't understand why.

>  You shouldn't need -a as an option since
> you're connecting to localhost.

It was just an wild attempt with command line options :-)

> Which version of Dropbear are you using? $SSH_CONNECTION was
> added in 0.53.

It is 0.52, default from debian squeeze. I can try to 0.53 but unless
that was tweaked I feed it won't work.

Guylhem