alebeck/boring

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1664 stars · 53 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

boring is a lightweight command-line SSH tunnel manager written in Go. It manages local, remote, and dynamic (SOCKS5) port forwarding tunnels defined in a simple TOML configuration file, integrating with SSH config and ssh-agent.

Use cases

• manage ssh tunnels from the command line
• set up local port forwarding to a dev server
• create a socks5 proxy through a remote host
• automatically reconnect ssh tunnels with keep-alives
• open groups of ssh tunnels defined in a toml config
• forward ports using my existing ssh config and agent

When to choose

• you frequently open and close SSH tunnels and want a simple CLI to manage them
• you want tunnel definitions in a human-friendly TOML file with SSH config integration
• you need automatic reconnection and keep-alives for long-running tunnels

When to avoid

• you need a GUI tunnel manager
• you need features beyond SSH port forwarding such as VPN or full mesh networking
• you need a daemon with a web dashboard for managing many tunnels

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

networking cli developer-tools networking developer-tools windows cross-platform cli ssh ssh-tunnel port-forwarding socks5-proxy toml-config shell-completions command-line devops linux macos

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