Determining Local IP Address within .profile

[Damien Miller]

> One interesting question:  Any objections to adding ProxyCommand
> functionality to sshd?  Since ssh is a server-speaks-first protocol,
> there are a few limitations to having the silent client the only side
> that can use non-socket connectors.

Why not just bind to localhost and do your proxying using tcp sockets - no
code changes required.

-d