> I don't expect any sort of good performance. I merely would like to > have access to a machine behind a plethora of networking hardware, for > remote management. I know that this is not an optimal > solution, but for > the short run, it works well. > I use this technique and get suprisingly good performance. I supplemented this technique with a small program which runs under cron and checks the link from the initiating side. It reestablishes the link if it goes away. Used with the -N option to ssh, you can just set up the port forwarding without the ssh session being up. Source for the program is at: http://www.swlink.net/~styma/SunAtHome/sshKeepAlive.html
