Depending on how your network setup actually is, most likely the sanest approach is to create an SSH tunnel and then connect DBI to the local end of that tunnel.

From a quick look through Net::SSH2, it doesn't seem that it readily supports setting up a tunnel. I think you can use the ->tcpip method to forward packets yourself, but that feels like far too much programming.

Personally, I would simply launch ssh -L local:remote:remoteport or however one sets up an ssh tunnel from the command line, and then direct DBI / DBD::mysql to connect to the local port. Most likely this is what HeidiSQL does as well.

In reply to Re: Using Net::SSH2 with DBI by Corion
in thread Using Net::SSH2 with DBI by diyaz

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