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I've using SSH Tunnel manager to easily set up and stop port tunneling over SSH to various servers at my company. That saved me the pain of opening up a new terminal window which will hang out there just for the sake of having a tunnel open.

This worked great (well , sort of) but SSH Tunnel Manager is a PowerPC application. With Lion, these are not supported any more.

What is a good replacement?

Cheers, Boaz

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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.

SSHTunnel

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Has this been tested under Lion? – dustmachine Aug 12 '11 at 20:44
I haven't tried it yet. – Ian C.♦ Aug 12 '11 at 21:05
Had a chance to try it today. Yes, it still works for me in Lion (10.6.0). – Ian C.♦ Aug 18 '11 at 16:43
@Ian 10.6.0 isn't Lion - it's Snow Leopard. – CajunLuke Oct 4 '11 at 1:13
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It doesn't work on OS X 10.8.x – bogdan Jan 7 at 17:56
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SSH Tunnel Manager is now in the Mac App Store! So, you can run it on Lion.

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Unreliable on 10.8, works only sometimes. – Sorin Sbarnea Jan 12 at 16:08
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You could also check out Meerkat.

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Meerkat is giving me problems under Lion. – user11602 Oct 4 '11 at 1:04
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Commercial and broken. – bogdan Jan 7 at 18:03
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I am using iSSH in Lion, which is a front-end application to the command line application “ssh”. It provides a quick and easy way to start an SSH connection to a remote computer.

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iSSH aleays asks for a password so it doesn't work with SSH keys. – bogdan Jan 7 at 17:52
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SSH Tunnel is dead, as is Meerkat and SSHTunnel is unstable. iSSH doesn't save passwords, so why bother?

I found Coccinellida, it works on Lion but it's new and a bit buggy : /

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iSSH can not remember my password. Coccinellida can save password. But it freezed my Mountain Lion sometimes ...

Shimo is good, but it IS commercial.

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