Connection caching?

[Jefferson Ogata]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> Damien Miller wrote:
>> You can do that now with port-forwarding, no?
> 
> Yes, but I'm talking about doing it by talking over a unix domain socket
> to the already-running ssh rather than by starting a new ssh.
> My app would ideally connect to the unix domain socket,
> send some command meaning 'please connect me to port 3869 on host xxx',
> and get back an fd connected to that port.

Sounds like you want ssh to be a VPN.

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