The Technical Bits

ssh -C2qTnN -D 4567 user@somehost.com

Options used:

• C – requests compression of all data.
• 2 – forces ssh to try protocol version 2 only.
• q – quiet mode; suppresses all warning and diagnostic messages.
• T – disables pseudo-tty allocation.
• n – redirects stdin from /dev/null, i.e., prevent reading from stdin. Must be used when ssh is run in the background.
• N – means do not execute a remote command.
• D – specifies the local application-level port.