SSH Tunnels with built-in SSH Shell

SSH Tunnels with built-in SSH Shell

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Greetings,

We are evaluating RDM 10 Enterprise.
It seems like there is a problem connecting to an SSH tunnel with the built-in SSH shell.

I've created an SSH connection, with a tunnel from localhost port 7058 to remotehost.example.com port 22.
We are able to connect with an embedded PuTTY session without a problem to localhost port 7058, yet its not working with the built-in SSH shell session. I cannot find any guide or how-to on this subject, am I doing anything wrong? Or is it really a bug?

Thanks in advance.

All Comments (7)

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Hi,
I will assign the thread to André. He is the one that did the built-in ssh

David Hervieux

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Hi,

How did you created the SSH tunnel, with Putty or built-in SSH functions ?

Regards,
edited by asanscartier on 9/25/2014

André Sanscartier

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Hey André,

Yes, I've built the tunnel with the built-in SSH functions (no PuTTY involved in creating the tunnel).
After the tunnel is created we are unable to use the built-in SSH Shell to go through it, yet we are able to go through it with an embedded PuTTY session.

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Hi,
Do you mean that you are using Putty successfully with the RDM built-in tunnel or with Putty SSH integrated functions ?
Because our built-in Outgoing SSH tunnel is not supposed to support that behaviour yet. But we are using a third party for SSH features, it always possible that some changes occurred.
Regards,

André Sanscartier

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Hi,

To create the tunnel I'm using RDM built-in SSH.
Add > Add Session > Telnet, SSH, Raw, rLogin.
In the drop down list I select "SSH".
In the Host I'm entering my remote Linux server IP address to create the tunnel on.
In the "Outgoing Tunnel Settings":
Local IP: 127.0.0.1
Port: Local port to bind to (i.e 7138)
Remote Host: IP of remote host to create tunnel to
Remote Port: 22

Then I create another Session as above, but instead of "SSH" I select "PuTTY", and enter host to connect: localhost, port: 7138. This way everything works as expected.
If instead of "PuTTY" I select "SSH Shell" with the same parameters it will just time out, unable to connect.

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Hi,
Indeed you found a bug. If Putty works our SSH Shell should to.
It's now in our todo list. Meanwhile please use Putty instead.
Sorry for any inconvenience,

André Sanscartier

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Thanks André,
As you suggested, we will use PuTTY session until its fixed.

Also, while at it, I would like to suggest adding the ability to set more than one tunnel per session settings.