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....
> 
>  
> 
> 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.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> 
>  
> 
> Chandan Tiwari
> 
> NEC HCL ST.
> 
> Noida,India
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
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