I've replaced my Bering/sshd firewall with a Bering
uClibc/dropbear combo and I don't seem to be able to
make tunnels like I used to from an outside location
using PuTTY. (For instance, I used to connect with
Windows/PuTTY to my firewall and open a shell while
forwarding a local port. Then I could connect local
port xyz on my work desktop to port 22 on my home
desktop through the firewall and open a shell there.
And then on to my SL-5500 which is connected and left
running. All great fun. I often demo these abilities
to amazed engineers in the office whose only computer
experience is MS Office on MS Windows)

Now, I can open the shell but the tunnel doesn't seem
to happen. If I try to use it, the original session
crashes.

The man page for the full-up version of dropbear
indicates that forwarding ports is the default
behavior and a switch is used to disable it. But when
Bering-uClibc 2.01 was introduced, dropbear port
forwarding evidently only "partly" worked.

Has anyone sucessfully used dropbear 0.41 for port
forwarding?
Is there a diagnostic that will show the forwarding is
active?
netstat -a shows the server listening and the
established connection but would a forwarded port show
up there?

-John



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