Hi Peter,
Now... stunnel should work just as well as SSH, but it also has just the same basic "limitation" - or, rather, design goal - stunnel is used only for forwarding TCP connections. I'm not sure what your VoIP model is, but if it is in any way based on UDP packets flying around, then neither stunnel nor SSH would be of any use to you.
My VoIP model is using 10000 - 20000 udp for the media so this is the reason I have to tunnel OpenVPN through SSH or Stunnel since I can forward my udp traffic through OpenVPN.
With that in mind, if it's a TCP connection that you want to encrypt, either stunnel or SSH port forwarding should do the job just fine, although for "permanent" setups I would rather use stunnel, since SSH may have some issues with timeouts and dropped control connections and such.
I need to investigate if Stunnel is available as a package for OpenWRT or DD-WRT firmware.
Thanks
Errol
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