i found some strange bug on maverick (in virtualbox) saying:
WARNING: Server requests forwarding for unknown listen_port
after which ssh tunnel on maverick doesn't work (even it gets established).
using ssh -o "ExitOnForwardFailure yes" should make client side good enough for random guessing of ports. having already windows client using random guessing it seems that this approach could simplify client side. hopefully redirection to file of a server response can also go away. let's see...
i found some strange bug on maverick (in virtualbox) saying: WARNING: Server requests forwarding for unknown listen_port after which ssh tunnel on maverick doesn't work (even it gets established).
using
ssh -o "ExitOnForwardFailure yes"
should make client side good enough for random guessing of ports. having already windows client using random guessing it seems that this approach could simplify client side. hopefully redirection to file of a server response can also go away. let's see...