2.9p2 behaves different from 2.5.2p2 on tunneling issue

Corinna Vinschen vinschen at redhat.com
Tue Sep 18 19:01:14 EST 2001


On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:43:29AM +0200, Markus Friedl wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:38:41AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Could you give me some hints what I have to look at?  I'm a bit lost
> > since I haven't found a documentation of the supported bugs in compat.c.
> > What is the change between 2.5.2 and 2.9 which results in 2.9 not
> > keeping the connection when communicating with old servers?
> 
> in 2.5 the client requested a 'session' for -N, 
> but did not execute anything.
> 
> however the 'session' this is not necessary at all.

It seems to be necessary with old servers, isn't it?

Is there a way in 2.9 to open a session anyway with -N so that
the server doesn't close the connection?

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
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