Very Computer

This is an obscure problem, and one I have a workaround for, but will
thow it out anyhoo.

I have a laptop running WindozeNT, with the latest and greatest cvs
client (1.3 i think) built on it. It also has an ssh client "ttssh" that
runs with a terminal program "teraterm pro".  This ssh client does port
forwarding.

Until recently I had a direct connection to the internet via modem to
ISP.  I have to connect to a cvs server- but the only service it allows
coming in from the big bad world is ssh. So, I would fire up ttssh,
forward port 2401 on my laptop->port 2401 on server, set CVSROOT to

Now, I access the inet through netbsd using a simple ipnat translator,
and no filters in ipf.conf or hosts.allow.
Everything is working just as before, except:
typing "cvs up" in a directory causes a long pause, and then ttssh
panics and dies.
(typing "cvs up (filename)" still works just fine)

So, yeah there must be a bug in ttssh, it shouldn't just die on me.  But
how can it tell the difference?

-y

I was wondering where you got the ``ttssh'' program.  I've never heard of
it before.  Is is commerical or Open Source softare?

Thanks.

What kind of error message does it print exactly ?
Is there some kind of timeout ?

Can you try to use 'cvs -t update' ?  Maybe this will help locate the problem.

Quote:

> So, yeah there must be a bug in ttssh, it shouldn't just die on me.  But
> how can it tell the difference?

Well, I don't know. But knowing what cvs is doing when it dies may help ...

--

--

Here's a session:

D:\world\QFS\qfs_svr>cvs up
cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)

D:\world\QFS\qfs_svr>cvs -t update
cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)

D:\world\QFS\qfs_svr>cvs -t -n up
cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)

tertarm/ttssh dies each time. not very helpful.

I have since run into more interesting (to me) things to do...
once this problem becomes to annoying to bear, I'll re-investigate

as for ttssh, it is a plugin for teraterm pro.  Both are win32 programs, and
source are available from their
respective authors.  Their pages are:

http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html
http://www.zip.com.au/~roca/ttssh.html

Thanks for the suggestions

-y

Here's a session:

D:\world\QFS\qfs_svr>cvs up
cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)

D:\world\QFS\qfs_svr>cvs -t update
cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)

D:\world\QFS\qfs_svr>cvs -t -n up
cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)

tertarm/ttssh dies each time. not very helpful.

I have since run into more interesting (to me) things to do...
once this problem becomes to annoying to bear, I'll re-investigate

as for ttssh, it is a plugin for teraterm pro.  Both are win32 programs, and
source are available from their
respective authors.  Their pages are:

http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html
http://www.zip.com.au/~roca/ttssh.html

Thanks for the suggestions

-y

Here's a session:

D:\world\QFS\qfs_svr>cvs up
cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)

D:\world\QFS\qfs_svr>cvs -t update
cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)

D:\world\QFS\qfs_svr>cvs -t -n up
cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)

tertarm/ttssh dies each time. not very helpful.

I have since run into more interesting (to me) things to do...
once this problem becomes to annoying to bear, I'll re-investigate

as for ttssh, it is a plugin for teraterm pro.  Both are win32 programs, and
source are available from their
respective authors.  Their pages are:

http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html
http://www.zip.com.au/~roca/ttssh.html

Thanks for the suggestions

-y