From: Lennon Day-Reynolds <rcoder@...>
Date: 2004-07-14T03:28:30+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Net::SSH 0.0.3

Why not just have the IP address be an optional call to the
forward/cancel_forward methods? It could default to '0.0.0.0' (or
similar), meaning 'all interfaces'.

Lennon

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:49:54 +0900, Jamis Buck <jgb3@email.byu.edu> wrote:
> Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> > What does forwarding a local port to several remote ports even mean?
> > Can it be done with 'ssh'?  I think this question has been asked but
> > not answered.
> 
> I'm pretty certain it cannot be done with 'ssh'. I, too, can't quite
> grasp what that would accomplish. I'm thinking I'll reduce the arguments
> of "cancel_forward_local" to simply the port that is being forwarded, to
> keep the interface simple.
> 
> If anyone has any strong arguments as to why that should not be done,
> please let me know. Support for multiple network interfaces would be
> interesting, but not perhaps practical. If it ever becomes an issue,
> perhaps I could create some "special-purpose" methods for that. I'd like
> to keep the common case simple, though.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Jamis Buck
> jgb3@email.byu.edu
> http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis
> 
> "I use octal until I get to 8, and then I switch to decimal."
> 
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