Bob Tanner wrote:
> 
> Anyone able to tunnel gabber through ssh?
> 
> I tried this on my local machine:
> 
> local% ssh -v -L 5222:jabber.com:5222 outside
> local% gabber
> 
> I set gabber to talk to local:5222, assuming it would forward the request across
> the firewall.
> 
> Did I do something wrong?
> 

I'm assuming you got authenticated to 'outside'? What did the output of
ssh tell you? Connection refused?

Here's a nice howto on forwading news, which should be the same process.

http://www.interlog.com/~giles/papers/SSH/x42.html