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Products that do what Mole v0.5.0 (SSH tunnel client with keep alive and connection retries) does

Highlighted Features * Auto local address selection: find a port available and start listening to it, so the -local flag doesn’t need to be given every time you run the app. * Create multiple tunnels using a single ssh connection: multiple tunnels can be established using a single connection to a ssh server by specifying different -remote flags. * Aliases: save your tunnel settings under an alias, so it can be reused later. * Leverage the SSH Config File: use some options (e.g. user name, identity key and port), specified in $HOME/.ssh/config whenever possible, so there is no need…

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19. 19MS
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