FTP specific port forwarding

[Damien Miller]

Darren Tucker wrote:
> Henrik Bentel wrote:
> 
>> I've been looking at a both openssh and couple of commercial SSH
>> implementations(F-Secure and ssh comm.).
>>
>> The one thing I see as missing is the "nice-to-have" feature of FTP
>> specific port forwarding.
>> The commercial implementations allows a syntax of "-L
>> ftp/<someport>:..." which does some "automagical"  forwarding of the
>> data channel "under the hood"
> 
> 
> FWIW DynamicForward should already work with a SOCKSified FTP client in 
> passive mode.

If someone really wants to implelemnt a convenient ftp-over-ssh mode,
they would be well advised to start by looking at one of the ftp proxies
(e.g. OpenBSD's) and modifying it to use dynamicforwards.

-d