If you would rather use ssh than OpenVPN but still want the convenience of "direct" connections to computers on the other side of the gateway host, and you want

If you would rather use ssh than OpenVPN but still want the convenience of "direct" connections to computers on the other side of the gateway host, and you want to avoid the tcp-over-tcp slowness problem, try my sshuttle project: http://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle http://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle