[alanfranz]

But if you have ssh clients on both machines, you can use port forwarding to allow machine2 to connect to machine1 via ssh. Or you can connect both machines to the "SSH stun server" (which is something like the beam host if I understand correctly) and let them connect through that.

I mean, I'm not bashing beam, but it's mostly syntactic sugar, not something that provides some actual new functionality, is that right?

[ksdme9]

Yup, you are right.

You can do this using a regular SSH server and some elbow grease. This is meant to be a simple setup and forget system that is relatively locked down and doesn't expose any more functionality than strictly necessary.