'Declaration
 
Public Overloads Sub Connect( _
   ByVal timeout As Integer _
) 

'Usage
 
Dim instance As SshConnection
Dim timeout As Integer
 
instance.Connect(timeout)

public void Connect( 
   int timeout
)

public: void Connect( 
   int timeout
) 

public:
void Connect( 
   int timeout
) 

Parameters

timeout

Timeout for complete connection establishment (non-negative), in milliseconds.

Use Connection.RemoteEndPoint and Connection.LocalEndPoint to set remote and local address and port.

When the server presents its host key, raises the HostKey event to ask for permission to proceed. If no handler is registered for the HostKey event, then any host key will be accepted - this is NOT recommended, since it makes man-in-the-middle attacks VERY easy (somebody could put a proxy SSH server between you and the real server).

Timeout indicates the maximum time to wait before raising an error during the two phases of the connection process: connection to the host and key exchange. Set to 0 to use the system default for connection to the host (~20 seconds) and the default of 6 seconds for key exchange. The timeout period begins when Connect is called and ends after the first key-exchange round.

Note: The HostKey event is raised before doing any crypto calculations (i.e., diffie-hellman). Therefore, if you do not like the presented host key then no CPU cycles are wasted (and the server has less information about us).

However, it is still possible that the server presented a fake host key: the server cheated (typically a sign for a man-in-the-middle attack) and is not able to generate a signature that matches its host key. The library will detect such a scenario later when checking the signature (the signature cannot be checked before having completed the diffie-hellman exchange).

Note 2: See the ComponentBase.SynchronizingObject property for important information on updating UI controls from within the HostKey event.

Note 3: This method will block as long as the key exchange of the underlying connection has not been completed or the timeout period expires.

The technique used to invoke this method is dependent upon the value of ThreadingModel. If ThreadingModel.Free, this method executes on the current thread and returns when complete (this is standard for creating applications in multi-threading environments like .NET). If ThreadingModel.ApartmentBlocking, this method blocks and processes windows UI messages while a worker thread executes (this is useful for making a simple blocking call in an apartment model environment like VB6). If ThreadingModel.ApartmentAsync, this method immediately returns after starting a worker thread that executes asynchronously (this is useful for creating advanced communications applications in an apartment model environment like VB6). The StateChanged event will be raised upon completion, or the Error event raised if an exception is thrown.

Reference

SshConnection Class
SshConnection Members
Overload List