“You seem ambivalent on the matter of port forwarding.”

Took me a minute to figure out what he meant.

The view from my side was a little more sensical:

<DaveMacK>      not trivial to get at that server from outside

<Myke>  ssh tunnelling is my      

<DaveMacK>      sassy for you.

<Myke>  ssh -g -N -L myport:server:serverport luser@sshserver

<Myke>  then I just connect to localhost:myport

Of course, the -g makes things a little insecure, don’t use if it you don’t need to. That was off the top of my head, but -g -f -N is a good set of options.