[mosh-devel] MOSH Ideas List 2013

[Keith Winstein]

Thanks, Tim. Our tentative thoughts on this are to create "slosh" as a
separate program that will fork a lightweight Linux container (with
unshare()) in a new network namespace with a TUN device, and gracefully
proxy all the network connections initiated from within the container to
the server, doing the right thing in the presence of roaming, intermittent
connectivity, or multihoming.

We've been doing some testing of this strategy and looks like it will be
pretty slick, and we'll be able to support X11 forwarding, SOCKS
forwarding, ssh-agent forwarding, etc., without trying to bolt everything
onto a remote terminal program. The downside is that it would be Linux-only
unless we can figure out how to make similar containers on BSD or OS X.
What do you think?

Cheers,
Keith


On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Tim Watts <tim.j.watts at kcl.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Firstly I would like to say I love mosh. It really solves the problem of
> working with a laptop on the train tethered via 3G where the connection
> is up and down like a yoyo and my client IP changes randomly.
>
> I would like to offer 2 "wishlist" items to the Mosh 2013 Ideas List:
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/10o-TLA03bY4cZzEIZR-5wKmBecvYKpOEFRqSJFbIm3M
>
> And these are:
>
> 1) To support TCP tunnels aka the -L option in openssh.
>
> I hold several tunnels open on my train journey to work (to access
> secured systems like VMWare management and databases) and sadly, I still
> rely on the regular ssh client for this with the expected issues.
>
> 2) To support socksproxy tunnels aka the openssh -D option.
>
>
> I'll humbly leave those ideas with you.
>
> Kind regards and all the best,
>
> Tim Watts
>
>
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