Cygwin, OpenSSH, IPv6.

[René Berber]

David Woodhouse wrote:

> I'm trying to get the OpenSSH dæmon working on the Windows box
> my new employer gave me. I followed the instructions at
> http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~kscully/CygwinSSHD_W2K3.html (not quite
> understanding what the 'mount -s --change-cygdrive-prefix' command was
> for), and I can now log in over Legacy IP.
> 
> However, I need to use IPv6 for my local network, because Legacy IP
> routing all gets hijacked by the VPN software. I already have VNC
> working over IPv6, which is a good start, but now I'm trying to set up
> sshd so that I can use it for port forwarding to the internal network.
> 
> When I edit /etc/sshd_config and uncomment the 'Listen ::' line, I get 
> told 'The CYGWIN sshd service could not be started', and sshd.log
> says "bad addr or host :: (no address associated with name)'.
> 
> Was it built without IPv6 support?

Yes, like everything else network related in Cygwin.

But you have a couple of choices, the 1.7 version of Cygwin (not sure 
about the status of IPv6 support), and the modification made by Jun-ya 
KATO (including OpenSSH, otherwise you would have to recompile 
everything you need -- but notice that it is for Cygwin 1.5.24, about  a 
year old):

    http://win6.jp/Cygwin/

I personally don't have any experience with both.
-- 
René Berber


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