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established an ssh tunnel from A to B with:
ssh -fNL 26150:machineB:26150 machineB &

now try to simply connect netcat to the localhost port 26150:
nc localhost 26150

I get the error message:

channel 1: open failed: connect failed: No route to host

????? I'm connecting to localhost. ?!?!?!?!?

On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 09:51 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> The scenario:
> 
> take serial port data from /dev/ttyS14 on machineA and route it securely
> with an ssh tunnel to machineB where it is picked up and put onto serial
> port /dev/ttyS1
> 
> I have been trying to do it with a combination of nc and ssh as follows:
> 
> on machineA:
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> TCP_PORT=26150
> SERIAL_PORT=/dev/ttyS14
> BAUDRATE=38400
> 
> while (true)
>         do
>         (stty $BAUDRATE -echo clocal raw pass8 ; exec nc -l -p
> $TCP_PORT)  < $SERIAL_PORT > $SERIAL_PORT
> done
> 
> followed by:
> 
> ssh -L 26150:machineB:26150 machineB
> (ssh connection is with keys)
> 
> And on machineB the same script as above with SERIAL_PORT=/dev/ttyS1
> 
> I keep running into the issue of not being able to "share connections"
> to port 26150 on machineA. Both nc and ssh want to lock it on their
> connection. How do I get around this?
> 
> (stupid, ancient DOS app that can't be run over a nice fast network
> line)
> 
> 
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