<div dir="ltr">Does dropbear support tunnelling? I can't find any references for it, but may be searching for the wrong keywords. "tunnel" exists only once in the source tree, for example.<div><br></div><div>My expectation is that it does not support it, but would like to confirm.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm asking because, when I tried to set up a tunnel it did not work. Here is what failed:</div><div><br></div><div>I tried to set up the tunnel on my client like this:</div><div><br></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"> ssh -p 1018 -v -v -v -L 63333:localhost:5433 <a href="mailto:admin@example.com">admin@example.com</a></font><br></div><div><br></div><div>and tried to connect through it with this (also on the client):</div><div><br></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"> psql -h localhost -p 63333</font><br></div><div><br></div><div>the initial connection gives this output:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"> debug1: Connection to port 63333 forwarding to localhost port 5433 requested.</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"> debug2: fd 9 setting TCP_NODELAY</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"> debug2: fd 9 setting O_NONBLOCK</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"> debug3: fd 9 is O_NONBLOCK</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"> debug1: channel 3: new [direct-tcpip]</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"> channel 3: <b>open failed: administratively prohibited</b>: </font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"> debug2: channel 3: zombie</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"> debug2: channel 3: garbage collecting</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"> debug1: channel 3: free: direct-tcpip: listening port 63333 for localhost port 5433, connect from ::1 port 57636 to ::1 port 63333, nchannels 4</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"> debug3: channel 3: status: The following connections are open:</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"> #2 client-session (t4 r0 i0/0 o0/0 fd 6/7 cc -1)</font></div><div><br></div><div>If it matters, the end intent here is actually to use ssh tunneling to access postgres running on the server with dropbear (usign standard tools, like pgadmin3, which presumably expect standard tunneling implementations). The above tunnel attempt was while trying to debug connection failures with these tools.</div><div><br></div>
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