wok annotate autossh/description.txt @ rev 23104
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author | Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org> |
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date | Thu Mar 12 11:27:14 2020 +0100 (2020-03-12) |
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hackdorte@20009 | 1 **autossh** is a program to start an instance of ssh and monitor it, |
hackdorte@20009 | 2 restarting it as necessary should it die or stop passing traffic. The idea is |
hackdorte@20009 | 3 from rstunnel (Reliable SSH Tunnel), but implemented in C. Connection |
hackdorte@20009 | 4 monitoring is done using a loop of port forwardings. It backs off on the rate |
hackdorte@20009 | 5 of connection attempts when experiencing rapid failures such as connection |
hackdorte@20009 | 6 refused. |