[Courses] [Security] Port forwarding with SSH andipchains/iptables

[Scott St. John]

On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, jennyw wrote:
> The main reason I'm wary of SSH clients on Windows is that I've heard PuTTY
> is the best SSH client out there, but my connections get dropped a lot more
> than when I'm using BSD or Linux. I've heard from other users that PuTTY
> works better then TTSSH, so I haven't tried it, but I might give it a go. I
> know that you can run OpenSSH with Cygwin, but I'm pretty wary of that, too.

When I have to run Windows I use PuTTY all the time and have never had any 
troble with.  I've left it connected for days and it would still be 
connected if not for my usual required 36 hour mandatory reboot.  PuTTY 
has a low memory footprint and fits on a floppy too :)

-Scott