Portable Windows Mosh?

windows ssh portability mosh
mepmerp picture mepmerp · Nov 12, 2013 · Viewed 17.9k times · Source

I was wondering if there's a way to use Mosh on windows without Cygwin?
I need to be able to put it on my USB drive and copy it over to a windows computer and be able to Mosh into one of my servers. Otherwise, is there a way to use Cygwin and have it portable? I did get mosh working under windows via Cygwin, but that meant I had to add an environment path to the windows computer, which, on the windows computer that I'm working on doesn't allow you to change that, since I don't have admin privileges.

Answer

Lyndon White picture Lyndon White · Jan 6, 2014

MobaXTerm is portable and supports Mosh. It works quiet well.
(I spent all day using it on a very dodgy connection, worked like a charm).

Just get to run the most recent version, and from the Session menu select Mosh.
It did not not support ipv6, at least in version Version 9.2 (2016-09-18):

Bugfix: Mosh sessions are forced to IPv4 only (IPv6 is not yet supported by Mosh client/server)

But it might work now, since Version 10.4 (untested):

We also improved MobaXterm behavior and fixed issues with multi-monitors, IPv6 connections, mouse scrolling and keyboard shortcuts.

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