moving X11 portforwarding out into a " plugin" framework

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Sun Jan 24 03:04:32 EST 2010


Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> > Besides TCP it's the only one specified by the standards though.
> 
> Which standards?

RFC4250-4255, specifically 4254.


> Does/should a standard have to be written in order to forward
> additional protocols over the SSH session?

Since the existing special-purpose SSH channels are standardized I
think it would be a good idea. That said it might be possible to
use local-style names (@your.domain) also for channels, like for
other parts of the protocol.


//Peter


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