On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 02:46:38PM +0000, Johan Ribenfors wrote: > Matt Johnston <matt <at> ucc.asn.au> writes: > > > This looks sensible (exiting if a -R forward fails when -N > > is specified). I wonder if anyone would have problems if > > they're using -N and multiple -L/-R options and don't mind > > of only some of them fail - maybe it should be a separate > > commandline flag. > > In the interests of learning more, under what circumstances would you _not_ > want > dropbear to exit when it couldn't make the connection?
The kind of situation I had in mind is where you have a set of say 5 ports you want forwarded but one of the ports is already bound on the server (perhaps you've forwarded that separately?). I guess in automated circumstances with -N that isn't very common. It's more of an issue if you have some standard "LocalForward" per-host entries in a ~/.ssh/config for OpenSSH client, but don't care much if they don't always work. Cheers, Matt
