No worries! I'm sorry you felt the title was unrelated; I like more "flowery" titles, and we have the "same title" rule on HN. The point I was trying to make

No worries! I'm sorry you felt the title was unrelated; I like more "flowery" titles, and we have the "same title" rule on HN. The point I was trying to make with the title is that OpenSSH does a lot of what a full "VPN" does, yet is a _lot_ easier to configure than anything else I've encountered. Apart from PPTP, which is apparently the "rlogin" of VPNs ;-) free652 posted an even easier approach here, which sets up a SOCKS proxy with no extra configuration. If SOCKS is good enough, you should use that! If you want full tunneling, hopefully we can make my script easier / unnecessary.