[jlgaddis]

I work remotely. SSH is exactly what I use to access our internal-only (web) services.

[itaifrenkel]

Do you use ssh as a socks proxy?

[jlgaddis]

Yes. Typically:

  $ ssh -D 8888 <bastion host>

I have a Firefox add-on that makes it very easy to switch the proxy settings on and off.

[itaifrenkel]

And do you find that non-techies can also handle this? Also, I think this won't cover DNS changes that a vpn client does