A ssh wrapper to automate tunnel creation over multiple jump hosts.
Imagine you are logged into a customer's server.
To get there, you had to ssh through one or more jump hosts, and now you need to set up a port forwarding to debug a service.
Configuring the intermediate tunnels to get a port forwarded through all the jump hosts can be tedious.
sshdrill automates this task for you.
sshdrill runs as a wrapper around your interactive ssh session. It will listen for the ssh escape sequence '~C' to break into a command prompt which accepts ssh's forwarding syntax. sshdrill converts the requested forwarding into a series of forwardings for each hop on the way, scans how many nested ssh sessions are running, and applies the forwardings accordingly.
##Example Session
me@workstation:~$ alias ssh=sshdrill
me@workstation:~$ ssh jumphost1
user@jumphost1:~$ ssh jumphost2
user@jumphost2:~$ ssh root@target
root@target~$
<< ENTER ~C >>
sshdrill> -L8080:172.16.5.5:80
Forwarding port through 3 ssh sessions.
ssh> -L8080:172.16.5.5:80
Forwarding port.
ssh> -L8080:127.0.0.1:8080
Forwarding port.
ssh> -L8080:127.0.0.1:8080
Forwarding port.
root@target~$
The requested listen port in the forwarding specification is used for the intermediate tunnels. (port 8080 in the example above.)
sshdrill can tunnel local, remote and dynamic port forwardings through any number of ssh sessions.
sshdrill> h
Commands:
-L[bind_address:]port:host:hostport Request local forward
-R[bind_address:]port:host:hostport Request remote forward
-D[bind_address:]port Request dynamic forward
brew tap mpfz0r/mpfz0r
brew install sshdrill
# apt-get install devscripts
$ git clone https://github.com/mpfz0r/sshdrill
$ cd sshdrill
$ debuild -uc -us -b
# dpkg -i ../sshdrill_*.deb
make -f Makefile.<Operatingsystem> install
- IPv6 forwardings are not supported yet.
- The escape character cannot be configured.