[dleimbach]

I connected an SNMP monitoring system using two socats and an ssh tunnel. One socat to forward UDP over TCP to the locally encrypted port, and another to take it off on the other side and forward it to a local SNMP listener. It was a for a control system we were building that could monitor temperatures and control fan speeds in a computer cooling system. We ran it across several states in the US, and it was just to get an early demo of how the system would work before hardware was more locally available and the damned thing worked...

This made a lot of people very happy and it was really crazy to be on the phone with the other folks and have them rev up the fans in our lab via SNMP through this channel.