Comments on: Gnu Screen ; Command Parameter, Multi display mode & Copy Mode http://blog.cone.be/2009/11/17/gnu-screen-command-parameter-multi-display-mode-copy-mode/ No Regrets. Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:42:26 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Philip Paeps http://blog.cone.be/2009/11/17/gnu-screen-command-parameter-multi-display-mode-copy-mode/comment-page-1/#comment-1676 Philip Paeps Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:26:44 +0000 http://blog.cone.be/?p=3640#comment-1676 For the ssh tunnel, you really don't need a terminal or a screen. ssh -q -N -f or better ssh -D or even better autossh -D are much more flexible and intuitive. If you're ever on wireless links, you really want to use autossh. And if you're ever on networks you can't trust (as in, any network where you don't have control over the route to the real internet), you want ssh -D. For the ssh tunnel, you really don’t need a terminal or a screen.

ssh -q -N -f
or better
ssh -D
or even better
autossh -D
are much more flexible and intuitive.

If you’re ever on wireless links, you really want to use autossh. And if you’re ever on networks you can’t trust (as in, any network where you don’t have control over the route to the real internet), you want ssh -D.

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