[nycbug-talk] SSH client session multiplexing

[Jesse Callaway]

On Jul 25, 2004, at 7:16 PM, Okan Demirmen wrote:

> On Sun 2004.07.25 at 02:33 -0400, Jesse Callaway wrote:
>> On Jul 23, 2004, at 5:57 AM, michael wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have an opinion?
>>> Michael
>>>
>>
>> I'd have to assume that running virtual screens on the host would be
>> most efficient in all aspects of the case.
>
> 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 ;)
>
> okan
>
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> Okan Demirmen <okan at demirmen.com>
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ah... like how I'm sending this email. ok. I thought it was like to get 
more than one console.