Musing of a chubby Ginger kid.

Since OpenSSH 4.3 it has been possible to have a true VPN tunnel over SSH. This is not port forwarding, instead a point-to-point tunnel is created and then all traffic can be routed over that to exit at the SSH server end. This is useful if you are in an environment you do not entirely trust or need to be able to remotely login to a network to manage devices and you do not have the resources for a IPSEC solution. The only frustrating part of the system is it requires root access on both the client and server hosts.