A really useful thing I use with ssh and netcat is to forward SSH connections through a bastion host like this - http://backdrift.org/transparent-proxy-with-ssh

A really useful thing I use with ssh and netcat is to forward SSH connections through a bastion host like this - http://backdrift.org/transparent-proxy-with-ssh http://backdrift.org/transparent-proxy-with-ssh It looks like netcat can be substituted with the openssh 5.4 builtin.