Does anyone here use ssh as a tunneling protocol, that should be brought up
at boot time and shutdown only when rebooting the machine, like a standard
ethernet connection? What I'm talking about is if I want my box to ssh
through a firewall, use port forwarding to do some reverse proxying, and keep
that up until I shut the machine down. This precludes interative logon
scripts, or needing a terminal, and would hopefully include something along
the lines of "connection checking" where if the link goes down, it is brought
back up again automatically. A better comparision than ethernet would be
ppp. Has anyone done this? Have scripts for this? Know why this is a
horrible idea? Know of a showstopper for this, that precludes it from being
done at this time? All ideas and thoughts are appreciated.
Thanx,
D.A.Bishop
