From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2008-11-08T03:06:20+09:00
Subject: Re: DRb + SSH

Ara Howard wrote:
> On Nov 6, 2008, at 5:52 PM, Saji N. Hameed wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for the suggestion. However, I thought that was for
>> using DRb with SSL not SSH.
> 
> you cannot.  you can't tunnel drb over a single connection - every drb
> node is a servant and may need to open up another connection for
> certain method calls.  you can tunnel the main connection over ssh,
> but not subsequent ones as they are dynamic.

ssh lets you set up port forwarding in both directions. It works fine, 
although of course you have to set up the ssh connection yourself first.
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