Thanks for the information & pointers. Now I think I understand what was being said to me.

The problem with this solution is that I need to have a socksify program built for all my platforms (MacOS, SunOS, Windows, linux), and I'm not sure that socksify will build for all of them. This is why I like Net::SSH::Perl so much. The native perl code provides the ssh protocol directly, so my perl code is easily plopped onto a platform, and will mostly, "just run".

I think the better long-term way is to somehow have the Net::SSH::Perl module make use of the Net::SOCKS module to provide this functionality, when requested. Maybe I'll just "dig-in" and see what happens. After all, how bad can I muck things up... right? :-)

Many thanks for the reply!

-Craig