On Thu, 06 Nov 2003, Aditya wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 03:29:21PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:43:43PM -0800, Aditya wrote: > > > > > debug1: Connections to local port 8000 forwarded to remote address > > > www.freebsd.org:80 > > > debug1: Local forwarding listening on 127.0.0.1 port 8000. > > > bind: Can't assign requested address > > > channel_setup_fwd_listener: cannot listen to port: 8000 > > > Could not request local forwarding. > > > > > > and I can't see any reason why the binding would fail: > > > > Is something else (e.g. another ssh session) already bound to that port? > > nope -- and I've tried all sorts of ports other than 8000 too:
(I'm assuming you do have a lo0 device with 127.0.0.1) Have you tried binding it to the address on the interface which your host will send packets to the remote host over? -- David Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The future just ain't what it used to be" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"