From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-07-06T22:30:37+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Net::SSH 0.0.2

Patrick May wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Monday, July 5, 2004, at 09:32  PM, Jamis Buck wrote:
> 
>> So, if I understand it correctly, what you (all) would expect to be 
>> able to do is something like the following:
>>
>>   Thread.new do
>>     Net::SSH.forward_local( proxy_host,
>>                             local_port,
>>                             remote_host,
>>                             remote_port )
>>   end
>>
>>   do_something_on( 'localhost', local_port )
>>
>> Is that correct?
> 
> 
> Why not just call the method #tunnel?
> 
> Of course, whatever looks right from your house is fine by me.  Thanks 
> for Net::SSH!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Patrick
>

Well, the term the SSH docs use is "port forwarding", so if you're 
familiar with SSH but not Net::SSH, it might be easier to find the 
functionality if it is called "forward".

Secondly, SSH supports two types of port forwarding: forwarding a local 
connection to a remote machine, and vice versa (remote connection to 
local machine). Thus, I see having a "forward_local" method, and a 
"forward_remote" method. These would correspond (respectively) to the -L 
and -R options of the OpenSSH "ssh" executable.

However, if anyone has a compelling reason why the naming should be 
otherwise, please let me know. I'm definately not religious about this.

-- 
Jamis Buck
jgb3@email.byu.edu
http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis

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