> Does anyone know how to set up a "permanent" tunnel -- specifically, we want
> to create a tunnel that is always up. Can the ssh server daemon be
> configured to start and maintain a tunnel? If not, does anyone have a
> suggestion as to how to accomplish this?
If you are looking for 1 port (rather than all of them, which is
what would be provided by a VPN as suggested by others) I suggest
you simply look at stunnel or sslwrap -- ssl wrappers that will
do simple encrypted port forwarding like ssh's, however they
run out of inetd or in daemon mode, thus they're not tied to
a specific ssh logon.
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