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> I think this should just be a utility like Luigi suggested.  This will
> help "solve" these problems.

And in large part the traditional netpipe/socket tools in combination with
the -L and -R flags of SSH solve these issues rather handily. And when
used with ssh-keyagent rather nicely.

Dw