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We've compiled a list of 8 free and paid alternatives to Tunnel Manager. The primary competitors include Codinn SSH Proxy, iSSH. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between Tunnel Manager and MyEnTunnel, Core Tunnel, Gnome SSH Tunnel Manager. Also you can look at other similar options here: Network and Admin Software.


SSH Proxy can help you turn any remote SSH server into a SOCKS v5 proxy, intuitive and easy to use.

iSSH is a front-end application to the command line application “ssh”.

MyEnTunnel is a simple system tray application (or NT service) that establishes and maintains TCP...

Core Tunnel is the best way to manage your SSH tunnels, with OS X Keychain integration.

SSH Tunnel Manager is a tool to manage SSH Tunnels (commonly invoked with -L and -R arguments in...

Easily create and maintain tunnels to SSH servers on any network or behind any firewall.

Tunnel Manager allows users to easily manage a configurable list of SSH tunnels and their required...

Tunnel Manager Platforms

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Tunnel Manager Overview

This is a python program that helps me to manage the SSH tunnels that I use regularly for secure remote connectivity to my office and home networks. The standard Ubuntu repository already contains a program for managing tunnels, but it did not meet my requirements, so I used this as an opportunity to learn PyGtk programming.

The program allows you to maintain a configuration of commonly used dynamic, local, and/or remote SSH port-forwarding tunnels. Once configured, the tunnels can be started and stopped with simple mouse clicks, or even auto-started when the program is launched. Both SSHv1 and SSHv2 tunnels are supported. SSHv1 support was the main issue that drove me to write my own program.

If you are using key-based SSH authentication for all of your tunnels (you are, aren't you? if not, then why not?), you can register your SSH keys with the tunnel manager, too. The keys can be loaded or unloaded with simple mouse clicks, or even auto-loaded when the program is launched. This means of managing the key agent is another big advantage for me over the existing alternatives.

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