[nycbug-talk] SSH client session multiplexing

[Pete Wright]

Okan Demirmen wrote:

>On Sun 2004.07.25 at 02:33 -0400, Jesse Callaway wrote:
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>>On Jul 23, 2004, at 5:57 AM, michael wrote:
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>>>I was reading about session multiplexing on undeadly.org and was 
>>>curious  what advantage this would have over running a single session 
>>>to a host and running screen on the host.
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>>>Does anyone have an opinion?
>>>Michael
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>>I'd have to assume that running virtual screens on the host would be 
>>most efficient in all aspects of the case.
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>ssh multiplexing and virtual screens are two different things. you
>all know what virtual screens are using screen and window, but ssh
>multiplexing allows one to, say, open up one control session to
>your server then "piggy back" the rest of them over that channel -
>the advantage is that one can do anything else over that same
>channel: tunneling, more ttys, X forwarding, rsync, cvs, whatever
>leveraging that one channel - net gain is performance. basically,
>it speeds up all my actions to one server. try it, you'll love it ;)
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yea, agreed.  but michael was talking about "screen" a gnu utility that 
allows you to run a console...have it detached, reattach at another 
location etc...
-p

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