From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-09-11T23:28:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Net-SSH Threaded PortForward Script Problems

I haven't actually tried running your script, but it looks to me like 
the problem is in your script that does the port forwarding:

> BEGIN CODE 4 host Hop
> ----------
> 
> #!/usr/local/bin/ruby
> 
> require 'thread'
> require 'net/ssh'
> require 'net/ssh/service/forward'
> 
> threads = []
> 
> 
> t = Thread.new do
> Net::SSH.start( 'host1', 'jello', 'pass' ) do |session|
> mgr = PortForwardManager.new( session )
> mgr.forward_local( 1234, 'host2', 22 )
> session.main_loop
> end
> end
> 
> t = Thread.new do
> Net::SSH.start( 'localhost', 1234, 'jello', 'pass' ) do |session|
> mgr = PortForwardManager.new( session )
> mgr.forward_local( 1235, 'host3', 22 )
> session.main_loop
> end
> end
> 
> t = Thread.new do
> Net::SSH.start( 'localhost', 1235, 'jello', 'pass' ) do |session|
> mgr = PortForwardManager.new( session )
> mgr.forward_local( 1236, 'host4', 22 )
> session.main_loop
> end
> end
> 
> Net::SSH.start( 'localhost', 1236, 'jello', 'passwd' ) do |session|
> result = session.exec("hostname")
> puts result.data, "\n\n"
> result = session.exec("date")
> puts result.data, "\n\n"
> result = session.exec("uptime")
> puts result.data, "\n\n"
> end
> 
> threads.push( t )
> 
> ---------
> END CODE

You aren't doing a "join" on the threads, so the Ruby interpreter is 
exiting immediately--killing all running threads on the way. Which means 
none of the ports are being forwarded, which means your attempt to 
connect to a forwarded port fails with "connection refused." So,

   1) make sure you add *each thread* to the threads array

   2) make sure you join *each thread*, something like this:

      threads.each { |t| t.join }

See if that helps. If it doesn't, post again and I'll see if I can dig 
deeper.

- Jamis


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