On Wed, 22 May 2013, Lars Nooden wrote: [snip] > However, the remote machine is still able to use the forwarded port until > the connection is finally closed. The same syntax seems to shutdown > regular (-L) forwarded ports, just not for reverse (-R) forwarding. What > am I missing?
What I was missing was patience. With Chromium and Firefox, the connection is kept open for only a short while longer, but definitely not immediately shut down. With other programs, the tunnel seems to shut right away. Regards, /Lars
