Not the same thing. This is meant as an initscript to set up a port forward, autossh/rstunnel just watch an ssh connection you initiate and restart it as neede

Not the same thing. This is meant as an initscript to set up a port forward, autossh/rstunnel just watch an ssh connection you initiate and restart it as needed. You could use autossh/rstunnel to implement this though.