EloquentSpace | Dan Kelly's Weblog

SSh tunneling is a great thing. It is my opinion that a lot of IT managers, namely those who have experience in small to mid sized companies and on the Microsoft platform are somewhat unaware of the implications. I started using it to access external resources from behind a firewall, but quickly realized that I could do remote port forwarding. Remote port forwarding was exciting, I could access a computer via VNC or Remote Desktop Connection from the outside of a firewall! The problem was that the connection was unstable, and SSh doesn’t just automatically reconnect. The solution is obviously an application which assumes control over SSh on the client side, so I thought I’d go over a few. SSh also has a dynamic proxy built in, so it’s great for surfing YouTube or social networking sites.