scp and port forwarding

[Angelos D. Keromytis]

I have a config file in my .ssh directory that specifies a couple of
ports to be forwarded when i connect to a particular machine. The
problem is that when i'm connected, i can't use scp (let alone can't
connect again using ssh) because scp (and a second ssh) die
complaining about not being able to bind to the forwarding ports. One
solution is to have scp not forward ports at all (you can't do
that from the command line anyway). And then ssh could have an option
saying "well, if you can't forward ports, go ahead anyway".
-Angelos

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