Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:34:44 +0200 From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: perlcat <perlcat@alltel.net> Subject: Re: bind: Can't assign requested address using ssh (or anything else) Message-ID: <200801221334.45017.nvass@teledomenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <200801211400.33730.perlcat@alltel.net> References: <200801211400.33730.perlcat@alltel.net>
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On Monday 21 January 2008 22:00:33 perlcat wrote: > Trying to access a vpn using ssh on 6.2 - STABLE. Haven't found an > answer anywhere, and so I must be totally missing the right questions to > ask or configurations to look at. > > This problem is consistent regardless of port chosen or access method. I > can duplicate at will with ssh. Here's the command that fails: > > $ ssh -X -N -L 127.0.0.3:13390:192.168.1.44:3390 tyson@xx.xx.xx.xx > tyson@xx.xx.xx.xx's password: > bind: Can't assign requested address > channel_setup_fwd_listener: cannot listen to port: 13390 > Could not request local forwarding. Ofcourse it fails, you are trying to bind to address 127.0.0.3, however there is no such address assigned to a local network interface. Either: 1) change 127.0.0.3 to 127.0.0.1 You don't explain what this 127.0.0.3 is. 2) ifconfig lo0 add 127.3/32 HTH, Nikos
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