Re: [Sshkeychain-developers] Overhaul

[Bart M. <ba...@am...>]

We could create a mechanism that tries to restart the tunnel for about  
5 minutes, until giving up and notifying the user.
This should be doable.

What about ssh-agent functionality? Just have it use mac's built-in  
ssh-agent? Or making it optional?

On Nov 11, 2009, at 10:57 AM, Crimson Scythe wrote:

>
> On Nov 11, 2009, at 10:51 , Tim Cutts wrote:
>> On 10 Nov 2009, at 1:31 pm, Crimson Scythe wrote:
>>> Personally, I only use the tunneling features.
>>>
>>> My home computer sadly sits behind an ISP-level NAT, which means I
>>> can't open any ports at all. To get around this, I use SSHKeychain  
>>> to
>>> automatically launch tunnels with both forward and  reverse port
>>> forwarding. The only major issue I've experienced in my use is if
>>> there's a network hick-up, or if my work computer goes down/reboots,
>>> causing the tunnels to go down. I'd _love_ to have SSHKeychain
>>> automatically detect stale/broken tunnels and relaunching them. In
>>> other words, some sort of persistent tunneling feature. Is this
>>> doable?
>>
>> Difficult to do in a reliable way, I'd have thought.  How do you
>> tell the difference between a permanent failure (where you shouldn't
>> attempt to restart the tunnel) and a transient one, such as a
>> temporary network glitch while OSPF finds a new route through the
>> network?  What time thresholds should you use before attempting to
>> restart the tunnel?
>
> Well, I guess setting a user-defineable time threshold could work?
> Let's say 5 minutes or so. If the tunnel is down for that long, can it
> even resume? As it is now, if the network has a glitch, I simply lose
> all contact with the computer until the tunnel is manually
> reestablished.
>
> --Thomas
>
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