would reverse SSH work with Flume?

[Raymond Ng <ra...@gmail.com>]

Hi

I'm trying to test if I could set up a secured SSH channel between 2 flume
agents over a network,

I have Agent1 with a AvroSink and Agent2 with a AvroSource which listens on
localhost:10900. I've tried initiating a reverse SSH from where Agent2
resides with command

ssh -NR 10900:agent2_server:10900 agent1_server

but it doesn't seem to work, and I have a feeling that the sink agent has
to establish a hard link with the source agent as part of the startup ?

would Flume work with reverse SSH at all?

thanks
Ray