A new upstream release of autossh is out. It includes a new feature of allowing the user to use an echo server on the remote end to echo traffic back, instead of setting up a loop of port forwardings. It also includes the recent fix for heap corruption caused by freeing of memory allocated by the cygwin DLL.
Please upload: http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/autossh/autossh-1.3-1.tar.bz2 http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/autossh/autossh-1.3-1-src.tar.bz2 Thank you, Andrew.