From: Raj Sahae <rajsahae@...>
Date: 2007-04-16T13:36:19+09:00
Subject: Re: having a problem with DRb

Bill Kelly wrote:
> From: "Raj Sahae" <rajsahae@gmail.com>
>> Brian Candler wrote:
>>>> If not, then you will have to do lots of frigs involving port 
>>>> forwarding
>>>> *and* name to IP mapping. It would be easier to set up an ssh 
>>>> tunnel between
>>>> the two machines, and run DRb over that, since only one piece of
>>>> port-forwarding would be neeed.
>>>>
>> That all makes a good amount of sense.  My follow up question would 
>> be that since I'm doing this on a WinXP machine, would it be easier 
>> for me to try the VPN route instead of setting up SSH tunneling?  On 
>> *nix it seems like ssh can be set up instantly, but I have no idea 
>> how it would be done quickly and efficiently (and then coded for 
>> automation) on a windows machine.  I don't know how to automate VPN 
>> either, but on XP, setting up VPN seems to take only 1 minute of 
>> clicking the mouse.
>
> Hi,
>
> I don't know the legalities of this, but it may be possible to
> distribute the minimal set of cygwin binarires to provide ssh.
>
>  cygwin1.dll cygssl*.dll openssl.exe ssh.exe (...etc?)
>
> I'm not a lawyer, etc., so I could be wrong, but it seems like the
> license http://cygwin.com/licensing.html would allow distributing
> a subset of the binaries without the whole installer.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill
>
>
>
>
I apologize for this having become a little off topic.  Can anyone 
confirm what Bill is saying?  How would I go about getting those 
specific binaries, and then how would I use them?  Is there a way to 
integrate them with ruby.  Could I create my own SSH gem or SSH module 
somehow?

Raj