ssh reverse tunnel works, autossh does not

Question

I have to access an openvpn-vpn server behind a firewall, so to do this I use an ssh-reverse tunnel. While using the "normal" ssh command works, connecting via autossh does not. For all the other connections autossh works fine.

• SSH-Command:

  ssh -R 0.0.0.0:8888:localhost:1194 user@server -N
  

• Autossh-Command:

  /usr/bin/autossh -o "ServerAliveInterval 10" -o "ServerAliveCountMax 3" -N -R 0.0.0.0:8888:localhost:1149 user@server
  

• Error message while trying to connect with autossh:

  debug1: connect_next: host localhost ([127.0.0.1]:1149) in progress, fd=7
  debug3: channel 2: waiting for connection
  debug1: channel 2: connection failed: Connection refused
  connect_to localhost port 1149: failed.
  debug3: send packet: type 92
  debug2: channel 2: zombie
  debug2: channel 2: garbage collecting
  debug1: channel 2: free: 193.175.84.201, nchannels 3
  debug3: channel 2: status: The following connections are open:
  

I don't know what the difference might be here, anyone knows what could be wrong?

Answer 1

Found the solution, for anyone who has the same problem:

Instead of:

/usr/bin/autossh -o "ServerAliveInterval 10" -o "ServerAliveCountMax 3" -N -R 0.0.0.0:8888:localhost:1149 user@server

The command needs to be like this:

/usr/bin/autossh -o "ServerAliveInterval 10" -o "ServerAliveCountMax 3" -o ExitOnForwardFailure=yes -R 0.0.0.0:8888:localhost:1194 user@server -N

So the -N option needs to be at the end.