What's a good SSH tunneling client for OS X?

Solution 1:

SSHTunnel is a free, cocoa-based UI for SSH tunnel management. Works on 10.5 and up. It hasn't been updated in a while but the code that's there is reasonably stable. It's worked well for me in the past.

Solution 2:

Why not just use an SSH Tunnel via OSX's built in Terminal?...

Launch an SSH tunnel

To initiate your SSH tunnel, simply open Mac OSX Terminal.app and connect to your remote server via SSH with the following flags:

ssh -D 8080 -C -N [email protected]

This will launch our SSH tunnel on port 8080 and route all traffic (securely) through the server at example.com.

Browse the Web

Now, let’s start browsing the web using with your new SSH Tunnel (Chrome):

• Open Google Chrome
• Select ‘Chrome’ up the top left
• Select ‘Preferences’
• Select ‘Show advanced settings…’
• Select ‘Change proxy settings…’
• Select ‘SOCKS Proxy’
• Enter ’127.0.0.1′
• Enter port ’8080′
• Save changes by selecting ‘OK’