I've recently started using Mosh. It's a clever bit of software that keeps your SSH sessions running, even if your client goes offline or changes IP address.
But I find the syntax used to launch it a bit verbose and easy to forget. A typical command is something like:
mosh --ssh="ssh -p 1234" myname@example.com
Within the FAQ is a fleeting mention of how to configure Mosh. It says:
Q: How do I use a different SSH port (not 22)?
As of Mosh 1.2, you can pass arguments to ssh like so:
mosh remotehost --ssh="ssh -p 2222"Or configure a host alias in
~/.ssh/configwith a Port directive. Mosh will respect that too.
What it doesn't say is that Mosh will use all the directives in ~/.ssh/config. So you can have something like:
Host home
HostName example.com
User myname
Port 1234
Then you can run mosh home to connect. If you don't want to use passwords, you can add IdentityFile ~/.ssh/example.key or similar.
Perhaps you already knew that - but I didn't.
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@Edent hey that makes Mosh a lot more useful!
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@Edent thanks for sharing. I didn't even know Mosh was a thing. I frequently swap between hardwire and wifi at work, and I roam a decent amount. It always annoys me when connections hang. This sounds like the solution I have needed for awhile.
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