Let's take a simple example to understand this. all the information flows through the ssh tunnel to XQuartz, which renders the windows on your Mac. The status area at right helpfully informs us of our SSH connection string. 100% Safe and Secure Connect through firewalls/VPN via SSH tunnel for Mac. Option 2, part 1: Set up an SSH tunnel to the master node using dynamic port forwarding. ) Purely command line VPN tool, no waiting for those GUIs to open up 1 This article describes how to create an SSH Tunnel from your development machine to a server, on a Mac or Linux system. In this tutorial, we will show you how to use the terminal PuTTY to create an SSH tunnel. Is there any free SSH GUI client for Mac OS X? Coming from Windows I would be happy with something as simple as Putty. Works with Linux, Windows, and Mac Web GUI for local or remote management Autostart option XML configuration, so you can even avoid to use the GUI Installable on a server on-hot setup of port forwardings, no need to restart ssh session Port forwarding from any local IP, not just localhost Passwords storage License: GNU General Public Forward single GUI application Classic method.