wok annotate autossh/description.txt @ rev 24988
Fix perl-gd & tcptrack
| author | Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org> |
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| date | Thu May 12 11:01:25 2022 +0000 (2022-05-12) |
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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. |