On Wednesday, August 31, 2005 10:00:07 -0700 Sara Golemon <ietf-secsh%libssh2.org@localhost> wrote:
I was just wondering if there has ever been any thought put to making a draft of a UDP tunnel like the TCP forwarding function.I was tossing this idea along with unix domain sockets/windows named pipes and thought it might make more sense to define a generic "socket tunnel" session or subsystem. Something like:
I think something along these lines is a good idea.If you want to support forwarding in the reverse direction, you also need a generalized request for the server to listen on whatever sort of resource, and forward the connection back.
bool datagram (Never seen a use for AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM personally but it is possible...)
I'm pretty sure I have; I just can't remember what offhand. -- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+%cmu.edu@localhost> Sr. Research Systems Programmer School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA