Ooops! I meant to say that I have already added a rule to shorewall to allow port 22 conections from fw to loc. -John
--- John Desmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic > Workshop > FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! > Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 > today. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > SR FAQ: > http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
