Quoting Clay Fandre (clay at fandre.com): > That should work since jabber uses a single connection for everything. What problems are you having? Add the -v option to ssh to get more info. Are you sure that's the correct port? > > BTW, you can use -N option to just forward ports. > > -N Do not execute a remote command. This is useful if you just want > to forward ports (protocol version 2 only). Yeah, I used the -v, here is the result. debug1: Connection to port 5222 forwarding to jabber.com port 5222 requested. debug1: fd 5 setting O_NONBLOCK debug1: fd 5 IS O_NONBLOCK debug1: channel 1: new [direct-tcpip] debug1: channel 1: open confirm rwindow 32768 rmax 16384 Just hangs forever. -- Minneapolis St. Paul Twin Cities MN | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org Minnesota Linux | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9