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in reply to Re^4: Tunneling DBD::mysql connections over SSH without using external programs
in thread Tunneling DBD::mysql connections over SSH without using external programs

Net::OpenSSH does not work on Windows.

If you just want to run a tunnel, you could use the native ssh client from your OS on Unix and on Windows use PuTTY's plink which could be distributed with your module. IIRC, it doesn't have any dependency.