In message <200012201247.EAA17097@spammie.svbug.com>, opentrax@email.com writes
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>On 17 Dec, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 05:03:46PM +0100, Mipam wrote:
>>> > > Are there any more features that might make SSH valuable?
>>> > 
>>> > TCP tunnelling.
>>> 
>>> Could be good point, however, in many cases you'll end up with tcp over tcp
>>> which isnt a good idea. To point out one issue with that look here:
>> 
>> No, because in case of ssh it's not the tcp packets which are carried by the
>> tunnel but users data.
>> 
>My understanding is "tunnel", as a concept in SSH, is a feature
>of port forwarding. This seems like a good feature, but something
>that is rarely usable. Am I mistaken?

I've never had any trouble.  In fact, I received your message via a 
forwarded POP3 connection, and will send the reply via a forwarded SMTP 
connection....


		--Steve Bellovin