ransmitted on the wire.  On modern kernels this is a fair
assumption, but may not always be the case.  For the truly paranoid, use
of <code>localhost</code> or <code>127.0.0.1</code> as the <i>remote-addr</i>
parameter in the ssh tunnel command would cause traffic on <i>host</i> to
be sent over its loopback address, and not over the network.  However, this
will prevent data transfers from working altogether.  The author has a 
patch for scenarios like this; if interested, please contact him directly via
ema