On 2016/10/14 21:48, Tanmay Tiwari wrote: > Hi, > > *Feature*: Specification of local port when initiating a ssh connection > using ssh client (and optionally specification of local address/interface) > > Many people approach me for patching their openssh installation to allow > specification of source port when using ssh client. Mostly the reason is > they are using a source port based firewall. > > I think it would be good to have the feature in the main branch of openssh. > Specifying local port is a rather basic feature for a network related > application.
It really isn't. Maybe for lower-level type software like netcat, but you don't see this in things like ftp, telnet, wget, curl. Setting the source *address* is generally very useful; but ssh already supports this (-b). > I am willing to work on the feature (Its a 50 line patch anyway). Kindly > respond with whether you think the feature should be added. I think they should fix their firewall config instead. It is already fragile.
