Hi all.. am trying to incorporate a tunnel from over a slow setup ........ /-------------------------/ /-------------------------------/ | host1 |=========//Tunnel ssh //====================| Host2 | | squid parent | | squid http_port 3128 | | 127.0.0.1:8080 | | acl accept all | \-------------------------\ \-------------------------------\ Host1 configuration : ssh -L 8080:127.0.0.1:3128 -C -N -f client at host2 The tunnel goes through the link and forwards port 8080 to 3128 from host1 to host2 main reason is that the actual link size is 2Mbit/s and i need to pass the data in compression to gain maximum http transparent proxied data transfer from Host2 to Host1. It works fine as long as i don't have heavy load but when i connect Host1 to the local home network i start having some delay after a certain amount of time i believe when the clients establish sessions through squid which redirected to parents over the Tunnel session created . i have separated the logs squid log shows normal connectivity but on the console after ssh established i got this message channel 149: open failed: connect failed: Connection timed out channel 111: open failed: connect failed: Connection timed out channel 176: open failed: connect failed: Connection timed out channel 193: open failed: connect failed: Connection timed out and afterwards the connectivity degrades remarkably .... anyone has got any clue for what this might be.. thanks in advance :) Regards F.B.