Have you looked at connect-proxy [1]? I think it does what desproxy does and more. While it is also not yet in Debian, there is a ITP bug with preliminary packages [2]. Cheers, Stefan [1] http://www.taiyo.co.jp/~gotoh/ssh/connect.html [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=306268