[codetrotter]

As someone that used to use SSH port forwarding, I have a recommendation that may be a suitable alternative to the lack of port forwarding in Mosh, as well as being an alternative to port forwarding over SSH. Wireguard! This is what I do instead of port forwarding over SSH since quite a while back now.

I run a Wireguard VPN on a VPS, and have machines connect to that VPN. This allows me to reach the machines on the VPN from almost anywhere in the world. Recently I changed the port that Wireguard is listening on to port 443 UDP, which also allows me to connect to my VPN from a few public WLANs that are very restrictive on which ports they allow outbound traffic to.

Wireguard is super easy to configure and run, and very secure.

Definitely give Wireguard a go. It's open source and awesome.

[mbreese]

I think you could setup something like this on the fly too without root access. I’m not entirely sure, but a while back fly.io published [1] an article talking about how they use wireguard-go [2] to do something similar in user space. I might even try this too…

[1] https://fly.io/blog/ssh-and-user-mode-ip-wireguard/

[2] https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-go/about/