AW: Re: Patch for Socks5 support for dynamic portforwaring?

[Damien Miller]

Alex Peuchert wrote:
>> > within sftp you also don't care about the ssh protocol, do you? ;-)
>>
>> sftp has nothing to do with ssh, but port-forwarding has.
>>
> 
> good point ... so, what would be the solution if I need some kind of UDP
> port forwarding?

The SSH protocol doesn't support UDP forwarding at all. So your choices are:

1. Tunnel it somehow (netcat perhaps)
2. Write a I-D for udp of SSH, implemented it well and convience us it
is worthwhile

-d

PS. Please trim your quotes