Patch for Socks5 support for dynamic portforwaring?

[Markus Friedl]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:22:29AM +0200, Alex Peuchert wrote:
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> 
> > -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Markus Friedl [mailto:markus at openbsd.org]
> > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2003 10:16
> > An: Alex Peuchert
> > Cc: Ben Lindstrom; openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
> > Betreff: Re: Re: Patch for Socks5 support for dynamic portforwaring?
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:02:25AM +0200, Markus Friedl wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:40:36AM +0200, Alex Peuchert wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > thanks for your answer.
> > > > 
> > > > One suggestion: How about removing the complete Port 
> > Forwardig code from ssh
> > > > and introducing another subsystem (like sftp-server)?
> > > > 
> > > > It could work like this: the user command is 'ssocks' which 
> > opens a ssh
> > > > session to a server and starts the 'ssocks-server' subsystem.
> > > > 
> > > > I think this sounds quite simple...
> > > 
> > > ...but does not work.
> > 
> > well, it would work if you don't care about
> > the ssh protocol or interoperability.
> > 
> 
> within sftp you also don't care about the ssh protocol, do you? ;-)

sftp has nothing to do with ssh, but port-forwarding has.