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To: roberto@eurocontrol.fr
Subject: Re: Fwd: CVSup with SSH
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Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 22:19:42 -0800
From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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Ollivier ROBERT writes:
> [I sent this to -hubs which is probably not the right list]

Cvsup-bugs@polstra.com (and optionally -hackers) would be best.

> I'm behind a firewall and I can't use SOCKS. I'd like to use the port
> forwarding features of SSH (the 22 port is open) with CVSup. Has anyone
> tried the same setup ?
> 
> I've tried
> 
> ssh -L 5999:freefall.freebsd.org:5999 -L 5998:freefall.freebsd.org:5998
> freefall.freebsd.org
> 
> and
> 
> cvsup -L 1 -g -p 5999 -P - cvs-supfile.cvsup
> 
> but it still tries to connect to freefall directly:

I've been thinking this over.  I don't think it can be made to work
with the current release of CVSup.  I have an idea about how to enhance
CVSup so that it will be possible.  I'll see if I can implement it soon.

John