SOCKS5 and UDP

[Darren Tucker]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 1:30 AM, Romain Vimont <rom at rom1v.com> wrote:
[...]
> As a consequence, in particular, a SOCKS5 server started with "ssh -D"
> cannot proxify UDP packets.
>
> Are there deep reasons why OpenSSH does not implement them (security, or
> whatever)?

ssh -D accepts SOCKS CONNECT requests and maps them to SSH
"direct-tcpip" requests (see RFC4254 section 7.2).  These are only
defined for TCP, there's no equivalent for UDP.

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