[mosh-devel] tunneling using mosh

[Keith Winstein]

Hello Edward,

The simplest solution I can think of is to connect all three machines using
OpenVPN and then just Mosh among them as you please.

Good luck and please let me know if we can help further.

Cheers,
Keith

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Edward Peschko <horos11 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Keith,
>
> Yes, that's basically it - from a central server, be able to log in to
> another machine behind a firewall. If necessary, I could mosh to that
> central server and then mosh to the machine behind the firewall in question.
>
> if you have any pointers to examples on how to do this, it'd be
> appreciated.
>
> Ed
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Keith Winstein <keithw at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hello Edward,
>>
>> I'm not quite sure I follow. Do you want an arbitrary tunnel of a
>> byte-stream, or do you just want to be able to get a persistent, roamable
>> shell login to a machine that's behind a firewall?
>>
>> Mosh doesn't support arbitrary tunnels (yet!), but if you just need a
>> shell login from a central server to another machine behind a firewall,
>> that can be arranged. (We might want to flip which side is the client and
>> which is the server.)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Keith
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Edward Peschko <horos11 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>> This may be a long-shot, but I'll ask anyways..
>>>
>>> Is there a way to use mosh as a tunnel, like you can with ssh? I'd like
>>> to be able to use it like remote desktop or logmein, ie: with a third party
>>> server hosting a service so I could connect from two private servers to the
>>> central service and have a shell login on the remote device - even if that
>>> device is behind a firewall.
>>>
>>> I'd love to use ssh in this context, but it has all the drawbacks that
>>> ssh usually has - ie: prone to failing, disconnects, etc. And of course,
>>> logmein and remote desktop have the drawback that the computer, when being
>>> controlled, shares mouse and screen between both users - wheras I want to
>>> have separate control.
>>>
>>> Mosh would really help me out in this instance, but I'm not sure if the
>>> protocol would support this mode.
>>>
>>> Thanks much for any help,
>>>
>>> Ed
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> mosh-devel mailing list
>>> mosh-devel at mit.edu
>>> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/mosh-devel
>>>
>>>
>>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mosh-devel/attachments/20130810/0eb485a7/attachment.html