davrodpin/mole

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1725 stars · 97 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

Mole is a Go-based CLI application for creating SSH tunnels with a focus on resiliency and user experience. It supports automatic port selection, multiple tunnels over a single SSH connection, aliases, SSH config file integration, keep-alives, and auto-reconnection.

Use cases

• create an ssh tunnel to a remote database port
• access a service behind a firewall
• access a service listening on a non-routable network
• expose a local service to someone outside my network
• keep an ssh tunnel alive with auto-reconnect
• run multiple port forwards over one ssh connection
• save tunnel settings under an alias for reuse

When to choose

• you need resilient, self-healing ssh tunnels from the command line
• you want simple port forwarding without remembering ssh flags
• you want to reuse ssh config file settings for tunnels

When to avoid

• you need a GUI tunnel manager
• you need a full VPN solution rather than per-port forwarding
• you need tunnels managed as a long-running daemon service with orchestration

Facets

cli-tool · maturity stable

ssh networking cli proxy networking developer-tools security windows cli cross-platform ssh-tunnel port-forwarding go resiliency auto-reconnect command-line linux macos

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