From: Randy Lawrence <jm@...>
Date: 2004-07-12T16:33:44+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Net::SSH 0.0.3

Jamis Buck wrote:

> Randy Lawrence wrote:
> 
>> Wow, that was fast!  We requested some of these features just days ago!
> 
> 
> I aim to please. :)
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> Not hard at all. Supposing you started a forward request via:
> 
>   manager.forward_local( 12345, '1.2.3.4', 1122 )
> 
> Then, when you want to change the address that is being forwarded to:
> 
>   manager.cancel_forward_local( 12345, '1.2.3.4', 1122 )
>   manager.forward_local( 12345, '1.2.3.5', 1122)
> 
> And away you go!
> 
> Someday all of this will be properly documented. In the meantime, the 
> methods themselves have been commented--just run rdoc on the sources and 
> you'll get a nice document. Once I'm out of the 0.0.x series, I'll sit 
> down and write a users guide for all this stuff. In the meantime, the 
> API is almost guaranteed to change before then...
> 
>> Thanks!!!
> 
> 
> You're welcome!
> 

Beautiful!  This opens up a lot of possibilities.

Thanks a million!!!