What's a good SSH tunneling client for OS X? I've been 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, it is not supported any more.

What is a good replacement?
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 username@example.com


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’