Editor: A perfect marriage of UNIX power with Mac elegance, Meerkat includes innovative features such as application triggers, Automatic reconnection on system sleep & network change, Growl integration, Bonjour support, command-line and AppleScript integration, and much more.
Not familiar with tunnels? SSH tunnels (sometimes called port forwarding) are a way to use an SSH account on a server to forward other types of net traffic -- for example, HTTP web traffic, iTunes music sharing traffic, or SMTP email sending traffic -- through the SSH account. Then, this traffic appears to come from the SSH host instead of the original computer.
You can also read a Meerkat support forum response on why you might want to use an SSH tunnel.
Features:
Application Triggers
Tunnels can be associated with trigger applications.
The result? Tunnels come up when their trigger apps do, so dependent apps have everything they need at the ready.
Automatic Reconnect
Meerkat will automatically detect system sleep, wake, and network Events and reactivate your tunnels for you.
Your tunnels will be right where you left them, ready for use.
Tunnel Setup Assistant
Local, remote, dynamic -- not quite sure which type of tunnel you need?
Meerkat's Tunnel Setup Assistant can walk you through entering the details to Get the job done.
Bonjour Support
Tunnels can advertise their presence on the local LAN with Bonjour.
Web browsers, iTunes, VNC clients, and FTP clients all speak Bonjour and can auto-detect tunneled services.
Command-Line Tools
Moving to Meerkat doesn't mean giving up your command-line tools.
Meerkat has a shell utility that can activate and deactivate tunnels and supports AppleScript osascript calls, too.
Session Launching
Meerkat can be used to quickly launch SSH Sessions to all of your accounts.
It even includes support for system-wide keystrokes mapped to these accounts.
