What is SSH tunneling and whats it good for?
SSH (secure socket shell) is an encrypted connection between two computers that allows not only a secure remote terminal session but encrypted data transfer as well. An SSH tunnel is simply one or more parallel data stream that get built when you connect to a remote host. Through this tunnel you can securely access any open service on the remote machine, from FTP to AFP to VNC to printing, and let’s not forget X11!
