X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/u/mdw/putty/blobdiff_plain/b7a2b2a08e9c73176327fc402e01fdbe9e273d1a..881da16842e210236b12a040a19bf480de3a5a92:/doc/using.but diff --git a/doc/using.but b/doc/using.but index 74c3f793..85e23431 100644 --- a/doc/using.but +++ b/doc/using.but @@ -467,6 +467,15 @@ theory but servers will not necessarily cooperate. to obtain a fix from Microsoft in order to use addresses like \cw{127.0.0.5} - see \k{faq-alternate-localhost}.) +For more options relating to port forwarding, see +\k{config-ssh-portfwd}. + +If the connection you are forwarding over SSH is itself a second SSH +connection made by another copy of PuTTY, you might find the +\q{logical host name} configuration option useful to warn PuTTY of +which host key it should be expecting. See \k{config-loghost} for +details of this. + \H{using-rawprot} Making \i{raw TCP connections} A lot of \I{debugging Internet protocols}Internet protocols are @@ -867,7 +876,8 @@ PuTTY configuration box (see \k{config-ssh-prot}). \i{Internet protocol version} The \c{-4} and \c{-6} options force PuTTY to use the older Internet -protocol \i{IPv4} or the newer \i{IPv6}. +protocol \i{IPv4} or the newer \i{IPv6} for most outgoing +connections. These options are equivalent to selecting your preferred Internet protocol version as \q{IPv4} or \q{IPv6} in the Connection panel of @@ -886,6 +896,16 @@ This option is equivalent to the \q{Private key file for authentication} box in the Auth panel of the PuTTY configuration box (see \k{config-ssh-privkey}). +\S2{using-cmdline-loghost} \i\c{-loghost}: specify a \i{logical host +name} + +This option overrides PuTTY's normal SSH host key caching policy by +telling it the name of the host you expect your connection to end up +at (in cases where this differs from the location PuTTY thinks it's +connecting to). It can be a plain host name, or a host name followed +by a colon and a port number. See \k{config-loghost} for more detail +on this. + \S2{using-cmdline-pgpfp} \i\c{-pgpfp}: display \i{PGP key fingerprint}s This option causes the PuTTY tools not to run as normal, but instead