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Missing discussion in README of why this instead of mosh

Open dklempner opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

The readme is missing any discussion of why someone would use this instead of mosh.

In general, mosh is a story for something very close to "ssh over quic" for most users -- with the major caveat that quic didn't exist when mosh was originally written, so mosh uses its own UDP protocol.

My impression is that this does have a few usecases, such as if there's a firewall that allows QUIC but not generic UDP, but it's probably worth calling those out.

dklempner avatar Apr 28 '23 04:04 dklempner

Also why you'd want it in general. Does it help you pass restrictive firewalls? Are there latency advantages? it is more resilient in the face of low bandwidth or packet less, etc

taggart avatar May 26 '23 17:05 taggart

it would address these reasons:

https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22Reliable+byte+stream%22

sedlund avatar Aug 17 '25 22:08 sedlund