X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 17:53:53 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: SSH Local Port Forwarding Message-ID: <20060201165353.GH15572@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <242f7d730602010836m7f81fc56yb6303e6b8576dfc2 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <242f7d730602010836m7f81fc56yb6303e6b8576dfc2@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Feb 1 08:36, Jon Dixon wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > Thanks for all the consideration you have given this WinSock > problem. As a suggestion, would it be possible to add an ssh command > line option, so the user could explicitly open the listening port in > exclusive mode. This would alleviate the problem of trying to second > guess when to use SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE and when to use SO_REUSEADDR. > > For example: > ssh -L2001:server.com:23 -o "ExclusivePort yes" server.com Sorry, no. I won't add any special options to ssh which are not avaiable upstream. Somehow you missed the point. There's no reason to change the application if the underlying library cares for that. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/