Local binding port for SSH client?
Kevin J. Cummings
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Tue Sep 2 21:00:32 UTC 2008
Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> I'm wondering if it's possible to specify a local port when one uses the ssh
> client program? I'm sure the kernel is the one who decides some random port
> above 1024 at execution time...but I'm wondering if there's any way to
> control this at user level?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jorge
>
> p.d. all references to local ports on the man page are related to
> port-forwarding which is not the case in this case.
Are you looking for a way to control which outgoing port ssh uses? Or
do you want to specify which incoming port to connect to on the remote
machine? sshd has a -p option for the latter. It shouldn't matter
which outgoing port you use, only which port to connect to on the remote
machine....
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Kevin J. Cummings
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cummings at kjc386.framingham.ma.us
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