Tue, 16 May 2006
Reusing OpenSSH connections
Since I've moved to the UK, the initialisation time for my OpenSSH connections to various hosts in the Brisbane office has been much longer. There's a lot of data transferred when the connection is set up and this takes a while.
Turns out OpenSSH has a ControlMaster feature which allows reuse of connections to a host if there's already a connection open. This rocks! Saves me a painful wait whenever I open an SSH session.