New issue 386 by mkelly32: Support for ProxyCommand-like functionality
http://code.google.com/p/connectbot/issues/detail?id=386
It would be nice to be able to get similar functionality to OpenSSH's
ProxyCommand. In various situations, you may want to reach a host inside
some network, but only one host is open to ssh from the outside. Rather
than sshing, and then manually running ssh again to the final destination,
you can use a ProxyCommand setting like:
ProxyCommand /usr/bin/ssh -q -C -W%h:%p gateway.my.net
And then when you ssh to the inner host, traffic gets bounced properly. The
case where this is actually important is when you are proxying / port
forwarding. With this approach, the endpoint of your proxy is on your final
host, not on the gateway.
I second this feature (although it should be an enhancement rather than a
defect), this would be extremely useful to me, as I am quite often needing
to SSH to a host that is inside a NAT environment and doesn't have an
external IP address. This solution is much easier and elegant than setting
up an extra port forward.