From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2004-07-07T17:41:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::SSH and port forwarding

* Jamis Buck <jgb3@email.byu.edu> [0736 17:36]:

> Set up port forwarding on port X. When a connection is recieved, parse 
> the request. If the request matches format A, forward the request to 
> boxA:portA. If the request matches format B, forward the request to 
> boxB:portB. Etc. All of this happens transparently to the client that 
> connected to the local port.

> Would this be useful for anyone?

It would save you having to open multiple tunnels, at least in theory,
which would be very handy in a lot of circumstances.

If you could daemonize that you'd have an stunnel killer...
 
> ruby -ropenssl 
> -e'k="01234567";p((c,c.padding,c.iv,c.key=OpenSSL::Cipher::BF.new,false,k,k*2)[0].decrypt.update("1A81803C452C324619D319F980D5B84DBB45FC0FE2BAA045".scan(/../).map{|n|n.to_i(16).chr}.join))'
> 

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