Meerkat
Meerkat is an advanced SSH tunnel manager currently in private beta testing. Stay tuned for more information about Meerkat’s release soon! In the meantime, you may be interested in the blog posts here about Meerkat.
Meerkat has the following key features:
- Application Triggers Tunnels can be enabled and disabled automatically when dependent applications are launched and quit.
- Dockless Mode Meerkat can be run without a dock icon and has a full-featured status menu for a lightweight desktop footprint.
- Authentication Choices SSH accounts can use either password authentication (optionally saving passwords in the keychain) or key-based authentication using an external SSH agent.
- Automatic Reconfiguration Meerkat automatically restarts active tunnels in response to sleep/wake changes and network reconfigurations.
- Bonjour Automatically advertise tunneled services on the LAN for smooth integration with applications like Screen Sharing, Finder, iTunes, Terminal, Safari, and many others.
- Growl Support Stay notified of tunnel activity when Meerkat is in the background.
- Tunnel Versatility Support for all three SSH tunnel modes: remote service available locally, local service available remotely, and dynamic forwarding as a SOCKS proxy.
- Tunnel Setup Assistant Use the tunnel setup assistant to quickly get a tunnel running for a given purpose.
