From: Randy Lawrence <jm@...>
Date: 2004-07-12T05:03:46+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Net::SSH 0.0.3

Jamis Buck wrote:

> Net::SSH is a Ruby implementation of the SSH2 client protocol.
> 
>   http://rubyforge.org/projects/net-ssh
> 
> You asked for it, and you got it! Version 0.0.3 now supports port 
> forwarding. You can enable forwarding both from local to remote ports, 
> and vice versa (corresponding to the -L and -R options of ssh). Also, 
> you can programmatically mimic connection to/from ports, using handler 
> objects.
> 
> Here's a quick demo of port forwarding:
> 
>   Net::SSH.start( 'localhost' ) do |session|
>     manager = Net::SSH::Service::PortForwardManager.new( session )
> 
>     manager.forward_local( 12345, 'www.yahoo.com', 80 )
>     manager.forward_local( 12346, 'www.google.com', 80 )
> 
>     session.main_loop { true }
>   end
> 
> See the "examples" subdirectory for more examples.
> 
> This release also allows clients to specify their preferred SSH 
> algorithms. This means you can (for example) enable zlib compression of 
> the data stream. See the examples subdirectory for an example of how to 
> do this.
> 
> A few other fixes have been made, though the code is still far from 
> perfect, or complete. More work needs to be done on:
> 
>   - increasing the coverage of the SFTP protocol
>   - supporting ssh-agent if one is running
>   - supporting private keys with key/value pairs in their headers
>   - implementing a synchronous version of Net::SSH::Session
> 
> Try it out and let me know what you like/don't like. Wishlists are 
> accepted, as well. :) As usual, any version of Ruby < 1.8.2 will need to 
> have the patched version of OpenSSL, also available from the Net::SSH 
> downloads page.
> 

Wow, that was fast!  We requested some of these features just days ago!


Quick question: after we establish port forwarding, how difficult is it 
(or how easy) to terminate or re-establish it?   For example, if we're 
port forwarding to a machine with dynamic IP and detect that its address 
changed after the initial port-forwarding was established.

Thanks!!!