Query regarding dropbear
Matt Johnston
matt at ucc.asn.au
Tue Jan 10 22:04:36 WST 2012
That should work in 2011.54
Cheers,
Matt
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 04:51:25PM +0530, Chandan Tiwari wrote:
> Hi....
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> I've installed dropbear 0.53.1 on my linux machine and I tried to
> request for remote port forwarding by assigning the port to listen as 0
> using the command :
>
> dbclient -R 0:<ip address>:22 user@<ip address> but it gave the error
> message that it is unable to start port forwarding at port no 0 , I also
> looked in the source code of Dropbear from which I found that it is not
> supported with dropbear but in RFC 4254,section 7, page 16 it is
> mentioned that if we assign 0 as port no then the ssh server should
> assign the next available port to the client.
>
> Please tell me that whether it is mandatory to support this type of port
> forwarding by assigning the port as 0.
>
> Please reply as soon as possible.
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> Thanks and Regards,
>
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> Chandan Tiwari
>
> NEC HCL ST.
>
> Noida,India
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