I'm running OSX, so many of the advantages don't really work for me. * Socks on Mac is a tickbox which is pretty much system-wide. I can turn on or off in two

I'm running OSX, so many of the advantages don't really work for me. * Socks on Mac is a tickbox which is pretty much system-wide. I can turn on or off in two clicks anywhere in my system. UNIX socket programming isn't wrapped, so curl and wget don't follow the rules, but all mac apps do. If that wasn't enough, Socks rules are both per-host and per-subnet configurable. * I've never done UDP over ssh -D, but I do use ssh for the majority of my traffic and haven't had any trouble. That said, this does look useful for those rare cases when I can't muck about with the GatewayPorts sshd config on a system. That's a really rare case though, as typically I will just pay Amazon $.08/hr to bring up something with root access.