On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 08:50:00AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > undoubtedly a trivial question but i want to make sure i have this > mentally worked out before i get to the office and try it. > > i want to set up a system running dropbear to do local port > forwarding to a remote host running a regular sshd listening on the > default port 22. > > as i read it, on my forwarding system (with dropbear 0.52), i need > to do two things: > > 1) invoke dropbear with "-a" (no other changes) > > 2) invoke dbclient thusly: > > # dbclient -L 1234:localhost:22 r...@remotehost > > is that about it? or have i misread something in the docs? thanks.
I'm not totally sure what you want to do. If you have host1 <----> host2 <-------> host3 runs runs runs dbclient dropbear openssh then you would run on host1 dbclient -L 1234:host3:22 host2 and "dropbear -a" on host2 (the "forwarding system"). Does that make sense? Matt
