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include tox.ini
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recursive-include docs *.bat
recursive-include docs *.py
recursive-include docs *.rst
recursive-include docs Makefile
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TCP-over-TCP, which has terrible performance (see below).
Client side Requirements
------------------------
- sudo, or root access on your client machine.
(The server doesn't need admin access.)
- Python 2.7 or Python 3.5.
+-------+--------+------------+-----------------------------------------------+
| OS | Method | Features | Requirements |
+=======+========+============+===============================================+
| Linux | NAT | * IPv4 TCP + iptables DNAT, REDIRECT, and ttl modules. |
+ +--------+------------+-----------------------------------------------+
| | TPROXY | * IPv4 TCP + Linux with TPROXY support. |
| | | * IPv4 UDP + Python 3.5 preferred (see below). |
| | | * IPv6 TCP + Python 2 may require PyXAPI_ (see below). |
| | | * IPv6 UDP + |
+-------+--------+------------+-----------------------------------------------+
| MacOS | PF | * IPv4 TCP + You need to have the pfctl command. |
+-------+--------+------------+-----------------------------------------------+
.. _PyXAPI: http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~ylg/PyXAPI/
Server side Requirements
------------------------
Python 2.7 or Python 3.5.
Additional Suggested Software
-----------------------------
- You may want to use autossh, available in various package management
systems
Additional information for TPROXY
---------------------------------
TPROXY is the only method that supports full support of IPv6 and UDP.
Full UDP or DNS support with the TPROXY method requires the ``recvmsg()``
syscall. This is not available in Python 2, however is in Python 3.5 and
later. Under Python 2 you might find it sufficient installing PyXAPI_ to get
the ``recvmsg()`` function.
There are some things you need to consider for TPROXY to work:
- The following commands need to be run first as root. This only needs to be
done once after booting up::
ip route add local default dev lo table 100
ip rule add fwmark 1 lookup 100
ip -6 route add local default dev lo table 100
ip -6 rule add fwmark 1 lookup 100
- The ``--auto-nets`` feature does not detect IPv6 routes automatically. Add IPv6
routes manually. e.g. by adding ``'::/0'`` to the end of the command line.
- The client needs to be run as root. e.g.::
sudo SSH_AUTH_SOCK="$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" $HOME/tree/sshuttle.tproxy/sshuttle --method=tproxy ...
- You may need to exclude the IP address of the server you are connecting to.
Otherwise sshuttle may attempt to intercept the ssh packets, which will not
work. Use the ``--exclude`` parameter for this.
- Similarly, UDP return packets (including DNS) could get intercepted and
bounced back. This is the case if you have a broad subnet such as
``0.0.0.0/0`` or ``::/0`` that includes the IP address of the client. Use the
``--exclude`` parameter for this.
- You need the ``--method=tproxy`` parameter, as above.
- The routes for the outgoing packets must already exist. For example, if your
connection does not have IPv6 support, no IPv6 routes will exist, IPv6
packets will not be generated and sshuttle cannot intercept them::
telnet -6 www.google.com 80
Trying 2404:6800:4001:805::1010...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Network is unreachable
Add some dummy routes to external interfaces. Make sure they get removed
however after sshuttle exits.
Obtaining sshuttle
------------------
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./setup.py install
Usage
-----
- Forward all traffic::
sshuttle -r username@sshserver 0.0.0.0/0
- By default sshuttle will automatically choose a method to use. Override with
the ``--method=`` parameter.
- There is a shortcut for 0.0.0.0/0 for those that value
their wrists::
sshuttle -r username@sshserver 0/0
- If you would also like your DNS queries to be proxied
through the DNS server of the server you are connect to::
sshuttle --dns -r username@sshserver 0/0
The above is probably what you want to use to prevent
local network attacks such as Firesheep and friends.
(You may be prompted for one or more passwords; first, the local password to
become root using sudo, and then the remote ssh password. Or you might have
sudo and ssh set up to not require passwords, in which case you won't be
prompted at all.)
Usage Notes
-----------
That's it! Now your local machine can access the remote network as if you
were right there. And if your "client" machine is a router, everyone on
your local network can make connections to your remote network.
You don't need to install sshuttle on the remote server;
the remote server just needs to have python available.
sshuttle will automatically upload and run its source code
to the remote python interpreter.
This creates a transparent proxy server on your local machine for all IP
addresses that match 0.0.0.0/0. (You can use more specific IP addresses if
you want; use any number of IP addresses or subnets to change which
addresses get proxied. Using 0.0.0.0/0 proxies *everything*, which is
interesting if you don't trust the people on your local network.)
Any TCP session you initiate to one of the proxied IP addresses will be
captured by sshuttle and sent over an ssh session to the remote copy of
sshuttle, which will then regenerate the connection on that end, and funnel
the data back and forth through ssh.
Fun, right? A poor man's instant VPN, and you don't even have to have
admin access on the server.
Support
-------
Mailing list:
* Subscribe by sending a message to <sshuttle+subscribe@googlegroups.com>
* List archives are at: http://groups.google.com/group/sshuttle
Issue tracker and pull requests at github:
* https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle
Theory of Operation
-------------------
sshuttle is not exactly a VPN, and not exactly port forwarding. It's kind
of both, and kind of neither.
It's like a VPN, since it can forward every port on an entire network, not
just ports you specify. Conveniently, it lets you use the "real" IP
addresses of each host rather than faking port numbers on localhost.
On the other hand, the way it *works* is more like ssh port forwarding than
a VPN. Normally, a VPN forwards your data one packet at a time, and
doesn't care about individual connections; ie. it's "stateless" with respect
to the traffic. sshuttle is the opposite of stateless; it tracks every
single connection.
You could compare sshuttle to something like the old `Slirp
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slirp>`_ program, which was a userspace TCP/IP
implementation that did something similar. But it operated on a
packet-by-packet basis on the client side, reassembling the packets on the
server side. That worked okay back in the "real live serial port" days,
because serial ports had predictable latency and buffering.
But you can't safely just forward TCP packets over a TCP session (like ssh),
because TCP's performance depends fundamentally on packet loss; it
*must* experience packet loss in order to know when to slow down! At
the same time, the outer TCP session (ssh, in this case) is a reliable
transport, which means that what you forward through the tunnel *never*
experiences packet loss. The ssh session itself experiences packet loss, of
course, but TCP fixes it up and ssh (and thus you) never know the
difference. But neither does your inner TCP session, and extremely screwy
performance ensues.
sshuttle assembles the TCP stream locally, multiplexes it statefully over
an ssh session, and disassembles it back into packets at the other end. So
it never ends up doing TCP-over-TCP. It's just data-over-TCP, which is
safe.
Useless Trivia
--------------
This section written by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>.
Back in 1998 (12 years ago! Yikes!), I released the first version of `Tunnel
Vision <http://alumnit.ca/wiki/?TunnelVisionReadMe>`_, a semi-intelligent VPN
client for Linux. Unfortunately, I made two big mistakes: I implemented the
key exchange myself (oops), and I ended up doing TCP-over-TCP (double oops).
The resulting program worked okay - and people used it for years - but the
performance was always a bit funny. And nobody ever found any security flaws
in my key exchange, either, but that doesn't mean anything. :)
The same year, dcoombs and I also released Fast Forward, a proxy server
supporting transparent proxying. Among other things, we used it for
automatically splitting traffic across more than one Internet connection (a
tool we called "Double Vision").
I was still in university at the time. A couple years after that, one of my
professors was working with some graduate students on the technology that would
eventually become `Slipstream Internet Acceleration
<http://www.slipstream.com/>`_. He asked me to do a contract for him to build
an initial prototype of a transparent proxy server for mobile networks. The
idea was similar to sshuttle: if you reassemble and then disassemble the TCP
packets, you can reduce latency and improve performance vs. just forwarding
the packets over a plain VPN or mobile network. (It's unlikely that any of my
code has persisted in the Slipstream product today, but the concept is still
pretty cool. I'm still horrified that people use plain TCP on complex mobile
networks with crazily variable latency, for which it was never really
intended.)
That project I did for Slipstream was what first gave me the idea to merge
the concepts of Fast Forward, Double Vision, and Tunnel Vision into a single
program that was the best of all worlds. And here we are, at last, 10 years
later. You're welcome.

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# Makefile for Sphinx documentation
#
# You can set these variables from the command line.
SPHINXOPTS =
SPHINXBUILD = sphinx-build
PAPER =
BUILDDIR = _build
# User-friendly check for sphinx-build
ifeq ($(shell which $(SPHINXBUILD) >/dev/null 2>&1; echo $$?), 1)
$(error The '$(SPHINXBUILD)' command was not found. Make sure you have Sphinx installed, then set the SPHINXBUILD environment variable to point to the full path of the '$(SPHINXBUILD)' executable. Alternatively you can add the directory with the executable to your PATH. If you don't have Sphinx installed, grab it from http://sphinx-doc.org/)
endif
# Internal variables.
PAPEROPT_a4 = -D latex_paper_size=a4
PAPEROPT_letter = -D latex_paper_size=letter
ALLSPHINXOPTS = -d $(BUILDDIR)/doctrees $(PAPEROPT_$(PAPER)) $(SPHINXOPTS) .
# the i18n builder cannot share the environment and doctrees with the others
I18NSPHINXOPTS = $(PAPEROPT_$(PAPER)) $(SPHINXOPTS) .
.PHONY: help clean html dirhtml singlehtml pickle json htmlhelp qthelp devhelp epub latex latexpdf text man changes linkcheck doctest gettext
help:
@echo "Please use \`make <target>' where <target> is one of"
@echo " html to make standalone HTML files"
@echo " dirhtml to make HTML files named index.html in directories"
@echo " singlehtml to make a single large HTML file"
@echo " pickle to make pickle files"
@echo " json to make JSON files"
@echo " htmlhelp to make HTML files and a HTML help project"
@echo " qthelp to make HTML files and a qthelp project"
@echo " devhelp to make HTML files and a Devhelp project"
@echo " epub to make an epub"
@echo " latex to make LaTeX files, you can set PAPER=a4 or PAPER=letter"
@echo " latexpdf to make LaTeX files and run them through pdflatex"
@echo " latexpdfja to make LaTeX files and run them through platex/dvipdfmx"
@echo " text to make text files"
@echo " man to make manual pages"
@echo " texinfo to make Texinfo files"
@echo " info to make Texinfo files and run them through makeinfo"
@echo " gettext to make PO message catalogs"
@echo " changes to make an overview of all changed/added/deprecated items"
@echo " xml to make Docutils-native XML files"
@echo " pseudoxml to make pseudoxml-XML files for display purposes"
@echo " linkcheck to check all external links for integrity"
@echo " doctest to run all doctests embedded in the documentation (if enabled)"
clean:
rm -rf $(BUILDDIR)/*
html:
$(SPHINXBUILD) -b html $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/html
@echo
@echo "Build finished. The HTML pages are in $(BUILDDIR)/html."
dirhtml:
$(SPHINXBUILD) -b dirhtml $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/dirhtml
@echo
@echo "Build finished. The HTML pages are in $(BUILDDIR)/dirhtml."
singlehtml:
$(SPHINXBUILD) -b singlehtml $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/singlehtml
@echo
@echo "Build finished. The HTML page is in $(BUILDDIR)/singlehtml."
pickle:
$(SPHINXBUILD) -b pickle $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/pickle
@echo
@echo "Build finished; now you can process the pickle files."
json:
$(SPHINXBUILD) -b json $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/json
@echo
@echo "Build finished; now you can process the JSON files."
htmlhelp:
$(SPHINXBUILD) -b htmlhelp $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/htmlhelp
@echo
@echo "Build finished; now you can run HTML Help Workshop with the" \
".hhp project file in $(BUILDDIR)/htmlhelp."
qthelp:
$(SPHINXBUILD) -b qthelp $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/qthelp
@echo
@echo "Build finished; now you can run "qcollectiongenerator" with the" \
".qhcp project file in $(BUILDDIR)/qthelp, like this:"
@echo "# qcollectiongenerator $(BUILDDIR)/qthelp/sshuttle.qhcp"
@echo "To view the help file:"
@echo "# assistant -collectionFile $(BUILDDIR)/qthelp/sshuttle.qhc"
devhelp:
$(SPHINXBUILD) -b devhelp $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/devhelp
@echo
@echo "Build finished."
@echo "To view the help file:"
@echo "# mkdir -p $$HOME/.local/share/devhelp/sshuttle"
@echo "# ln -s $(BUILDDIR)/devhelp $$HOME/.local/share/devhelp/sshuttle"
@echo "# devhelp"
epub:
$(SPHINXBUILD) -b epub $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/epub
@echo
@echo "Build finished. The epub file is in $(BUILDDIR)/epub."
latex:
$(SPHINXBUILD) -b latex $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/latex
@echo
@echo "Build finished; the LaTeX files are in $(BUILDDIR)/latex."
@echo "Run \`make' in that directory to run these through (pdf)latex" \
"(use \`make latexpdf' here to do that automatically)."
latexpdf:
$(SPHINXBUILD) -b latex $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/latex
@echo "Running LaTeX files through pdflatex..."
$(MAKE) -C $(BUILDDIR)/latex all-pdf
@echo "pdflatex finished; the PDF files are in $(BUILDDIR)/latex."
latexpdfja:
$(SPHINXBUILD) -b latex $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/latex
@echo "Running LaTeX files through platex and dvipdfmx..."
$(MAKE) -C $(BUILDDIR)/latex all-pdf-ja
@echo "pdflatex finished; the PDF files are in $(BUILDDIR)/latex."
text:
$(SPHINXBUILD) -b text $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/text
@echo
@echo "Build finished. The text files are in $(BUILDDIR)/text."
man:
$(SPHINXBUILD) -b man $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/man
@echo
@echo "Build finished. The manual pages are in $(BUILDDIR)/man."
texinfo:
$(SPHINXBUILD) -b texinfo $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/texinfo
@echo
@echo "Build finished. The Texinfo files are in $(BUILDDIR)/texinfo."
@echo "Run \`make' in that directory to run these through makeinfo" \
"(use \`make info' here to do that automatically)."
info:
$(SPHINXBUILD) -b texinfo $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/texinfo
@echo "Running Texinfo files through makeinfo..."
make -C $(BUILDDIR)/texinfo info
@echo "makeinfo finished; the Info files are in $(BUILDDIR)/texinfo."
gettext:
$(SPHINXBUILD) -b gettext $(I18NSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/locale
@echo
@echo "Build finished. The message catalogs are in $(BUILDDIR)/locale."
changes:
$(SPHINXBUILD) -b changes $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/changes
@echo
@echo "The overview file is in $(BUILDDIR)/changes."
linkcheck:
$(SPHINXBUILD) -b linkcheck $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/linkcheck
@echo
@echo "Link check complete; look for any errors in the above output " \
"or in $(BUILDDIR)/linkcheck/output.txt."
doctest:
$(SPHINXBUILD) -b doctest $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/doctest
@echo "Testing of doctests in the sources finished, look at the " \
"results in $(BUILDDIR)/doctest/output.txt."
xml:
$(SPHINXBUILD) -b xml $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/xml
@echo
@echo "Build finished. The XML files are in $(BUILDDIR)/xml."
pseudoxml:
$(SPHINXBUILD) -b pseudoxml $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/pseudoxml
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
# sshuttle documentation build configuration file, created by
# sphinx-quickstart on Sun Jan 17 12:13:47 2016.
#
# This file is execfile()d with the current directory set to its
# containing dir.
#
# Note that not all possible configuration values are present in this
# autogenerated file.
#
# All configuration values have a default; values that are commented out
# serve to show the default.
# import sys
# import os
# If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
# add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
# documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
# sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('.'))
# -- General configuration ------------------------------------------------
# If your documentation needs a minimal Sphinx version, state it here.
# needs_sphinx = '1.0'
# Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be
# extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom
# ones.
extensions = [
'sphinx.ext.todo',
'sphinx.ext.coverage',
]
# Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
templates_path = ['_templates']
# The suffix of source filenames.
source_suffix = '.rst'
# The encoding of source files.
# source_encoding = 'utf-8-sig'
# The master toctree document.
master_doc = 'index'
# General information about the project.
project = 'sshuttle'
copyright = '2016, Brian May'
# The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
# |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
# built documents.
#
# The short X.Y version.
from setuptools_scm import get_version
version = get_version(root="..")
# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
release = version
# The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
# for a list of supported languages.
# language = None
# There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some
# non-false value, then it is used:
# today = ''
# Else, today_fmt is used as the format for a strftime call.
# today_fmt = '%B %d, %Y'
# List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
# directories to ignore when looking for source files.
exclude_patterns = ['_build']
# The reST default role (used for this markup: `text`) to use for all
# documents.
# default_role = None
# If true, '()' will be appended to :func: etc. cross-reference text.
# add_function_parentheses = True
# If true, the current module name will be prepended to all description
# unit titles (such as .. function::).
# add_module_names = True
# If true, sectionauthor and moduleauthor directives will be shown in the
# output. They are ignored by default.
# show_authors = False
# The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use.
pygments_style = 'sphinx'
# A list of ignored prefixes for module index sorting.
# modindex_common_prefix = []
# If true, keep warnings as "system message" paragraphs in the built documents.
# keep_warnings = False
# -- Options for HTML output ----------------------------------------------
# The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages. See the documentation for
# a list of builtin themes.
html_theme = 'default'
# Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme
# further. For a list of options available for each theme, see the
# documentation.
# html_theme_options = {}
# Add any paths that contain custom themes here, relative to this directory.
# html_theme_path = []
# The name for this set of Sphinx documents. If None, it defaults to
# "<project> v<release> documentation".
# html_title = None
# A shorter title for the navigation bar. Default is the same as html_title.
# html_short_title = None
# The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top
# of the sidebar.
# html_logo = None
# The name of an image file (within the static path) to use as favicon of the
# docs. This file should be a Windows icon file (.ico) being 16x16 or 32x32
# pixels large.
# html_favicon = None
# Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
# relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
# so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
html_static_path = ['_static']
# Add any extra paths that contain custom files (such as robots.txt or
# .htaccess) here, relative to this directory. These files are copied
# directly to the root of the documentation.
# html_extra_path = []
# If not '', a 'Last updated on:' timestamp is inserted at every page bottom,
# using the given strftime format.
# html_last_updated_fmt = '%b %d, %Y'
# If true, SmartyPants will be used to convert quotes and dashes to
# typographically correct entities.
# html_use_smartypants = True
# Custom sidebar templates, maps document names to template names.
# html_sidebars = {}
# Additional templates that should be rendered to pages, maps page names to
# template names.
# html_additional_pages = {}
# If false, no module index is generated.
# html_domain_indices = True
# If false, no index is generated.
# html_use_index = True
# If true, the index is split into individual pages for each letter.
# html_split_index = False
# If true, links to the reST sources are added to the pages.
# html_show_sourcelink = True
# If true, "Created using Sphinx" is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True.
# html_show_sphinx = True
# If true, "(C) Copyright ..." is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True.
# html_show_copyright = True
# If true, an OpenSearch description file will be output, and all pages will
# contain a <link> tag referring to it. The value of this option must be the
# base URL from which the finished HTML is served.
# html_use_opensearch = ''
# This is the file name suffix for HTML files (e.g. ".xhtml").
# html_file_suffix = None
# Output file base name for HTML help builder.
htmlhelp_basename = 'sshuttledoc'
# -- Options for LaTeX output ---------------------------------------------
latex_elements = {
# The paper size ('letterpaper' or 'a4paper').
# 'papersize': 'letterpaper',
# The font size ('10pt', '11pt' or '12pt').
# 'pointsize': '10pt',
# Additional stuff for the LaTeX preamble.
# 'preamble': '',
}
# Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples
# (source start file, target name, title,
# author, documentclass [howto, manual, or own class]).
latex_documents = [
('index', 'sshuttle.tex', 'sshuttle documentation', 'Brian May', 'manual'),
]
# The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top of
# the title page.
# latex_logo = None
# For "manual" documents, if this is true, then toplevel headings are parts,
# not chapters.
# latex_use_parts = False
# If true, show page references after internal links.
# latex_show_pagerefs = False
# If true, show URL addresses after external links.
# latex_show_urls = False
# Documents to append as an appendix to all manuals.
# latex_appendices = []
# If false, no module index is generated.
# latex_domain_indices = True
# -- Options for manual page output ---------------------------------------
# One entry per manual page. List of tuples
# (source start file, name, description, authors, manual section).
man_pages = [
('manpage', 'sshuttle', 'sshuttle documentation', ['Brian May'], 1)
]
# If true, show URL addresses after external links.
# man_show_urls = False
# -- Options for Texinfo output -------------------------------------------
# Grouping the document tree into Texinfo files. List of tuples
# (source start file, target name, title, author,
# dir menu entry, description, category)
texinfo_documents = [
('index', 'sshuttle', 'sshuttle documentation',
'Brian May', 'sshuttle', 'A transparent proxy-based VPN using ssh',
'Miscellaneous'),
]
# Documents to append as an appendix to all manuals.
# texinfo_appendices = []
# If false, no module index is generated.
# texinfo_domain_indices = True
# How to display URL addresses: 'footnote', 'no', or 'inline'.
# texinfo_show_urls = 'footnote'
# If true, do not generate a @detailmenu in the "Top" node's menu.
# texinfo_no_detailmenu = False

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How it works
============
sshuttle is not exactly a VPN, and not exactly port forwarding. It's kind
of both, and kind of neither.
It's like a VPN, since it can forward every port on an entire network, not
just ports you specify. Conveniently, it lets you use the "real" IP
addresses of each host rather than faking port numbers on localhost.
On the other hand, the way it *works* is more like ssh port forwarding than
a VPN. Normally, a VPN forwards your data one packet at a time, and
doesn't care about individual connections; ie. it's "stateless" with respect
to the traffic. sshuttle is the opposite of stateless; it tracks every
single connection.
You could compare sshuttle to something like the old `Slirp
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slirp>`_ program, which was a userspace TCP/IP
implementation that did something similar. But it operated on a
packet-by-packet basis on the client side, reassembling the packets on the
server side. That worked okay back in the "real live serial port" days,
because serial ports had predictable latency and buffering.
But you can't safely just forward TCP packets over a TCP session (like ssh),
because TCP's performance depends fundamentally on packet loss; it
*must* experience packet loss in order to know when to slow down! At
the same time, the outer TCP session (ssh, in this case) is a reliable
transport, which means that what you forward through the tunnel *never*
experiences packet loss. The ssh session itself experiences packet loss, of
course, but TCP fixes it up and ssh (and thus you) never know the
difference. But neither does your inner TCP session, and extremely screwy
performance ensues.
sshuttle assembles the TCP stream locally, multiplexes it statefully over
an ssh session, and disassembles it back into packets at the other end. So
it never ends up doing TCP-over-TCP. It's just data-over-TCP, which is
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sshuttle: where transparent proxy meets VPN meets ssh
=====================================================
Contents:
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
overview
requirements
installation
usage
Manpage <manpage>
how-it-works
support
trivia
Indices and tables
==================
* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`search`

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Installation
============
- From PyPI::
pip install sshuttle
- Clone::
git clone https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle.git
./setup.py install

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% sshuttle(8) Sshuttle 0.46
% Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
% 2011-01-25
# NAME
sshuttle - a transparent proxy-based VPN using ssh
# SYNOPSIS
sshuttle [options...] [-r [username@]sshserver[:port]] \<subnets...\>
sshuttle
========
# DESCRIPTION
Synopsis
--------
**sshuttle** [*options*] [**-r** *[username@]sshserver[:port]*] \<*subnets* ...\>
sshuttle allows you to create a VPN connection from your
Description
-----------
:program:`sshuttle` allows you to create a VPN connection from your
machine to any remote server that you can connect to via
ssh, as long as that server has python 2.3 or higher.
To work, you must have root access on the local machine,
but you can have a normal account on the server.
It's valid to run sshuttle more than once simultaneously on
It's valid to run :program:`sshuttle` more than once simultaneously on
a single client machine, connecting to a different server
every time, so you can be on more than one VPN at once.
If run on a router, sshuttle can forward traffic for your
If run on a router, :program:`sshuttle` can forward traffic for your
entire subnet to the VPN.
# OPTIONS
Options
-------
.. program:: sshuttle
\<subnets...\>
: a list of subnets to route over the VPN, in the form
`a.b.c.d[/width]`. Valid examples are 1.2.3.4 (a
.. option:: subnets
A list of subnets to route over the VPN, in the form
``a.b.c.d[/width]``. Valid examples are 1.2.3.4 (a
single IP address), 1.2.3.4/32 (equivalent to 1.2.3.4),
1.2.3.0/24 (a 24-bit subnet, ie. with a 255.255.255.0
netmask), and 0/0 ('just route everything through the
VPN').
-l, --listen=*[ip:]port*
: use this ip address and port number as the transparent
proxy port. By default sshuttle finds an available
.. option:: -l, --listen=[ip:]port
Use this ip address and port number as the transparent
proxy port. By default :program:`sshuttle` finds an available
port automatically and listens on IP 127.0.0.1
(localhost), so you don't need to override it, and
connections are only proxied from the local machine,
not from outside machines. If you want to accept
connections from other machines on your network (ie. to
run sshuttle on a router) try enabling IP Forwarding in
your kernel, then using `--listen 0.0.0.0:0`.
run :program:`sshuttle` on a router) try enabling IP Forwarding in
your kernel, then using ``--listen 0.0.0.0:0``.
-H, --auto-hosts
: scan for remote hostnames and update the local /etc/hosts
.. option:: -H, --auto-hosts
Scan for remote hostnames and update the local /etc/hosts
file with matching entries for as long as the VPN is
open. This is nicer than changing your system's DNS
(/etc/resolv.conf) settings, for several reasons. First,
hostnames are added without domain names attached, so
you can `ssh thatserver` without worrying if your local
domain matches the remote one. Second, if you sshuttle
you can ``ssh thatserver`` without worrying if your local
domain matches the remote one. Second, if you :program:`sshuttle`
into more than one VPN at a time, it's impossible to
use more than one DNS server at once anyway, but
sshuttle correctly merges /etc/hosts entries between
:program:`sshuttle` correctly merges /etc/hosts entries between
all running copies. Third, if you're only routing a
few subnets over the VPN, you probably would prefer to
keep using your local DNS server for everything else.
-N, --auto-nets
: in addition to the subnets provided on the command
.. option:: -N, --auto-nets
In addition to the subnets provided on the command
line, ask the server which subnets it thinks we should
route, and route those automatically. The suggestions
are taken automatically from the server's routing
table.
--dns
: capture local DNS requests and forward to the remote DNS
.. option:: --dns
Capture local DNS requests and forward to the remote DNS
server.
--python
: specify the name/path of the remote python interpreter.
The default is just `python`, which means to use the
.. option:: --python
Specify the name/path of the remote python interpreter.
The default is just ``python``, which means to use the
default python interpreter on the remote system's PATH.
-r, --remote=*[username@]sshserver[:port]*
: the remote hostname and optional username and ssh
.. option:: -r, --remote=[username@]sshserver[:port]
The remote hostname and optional username and ssh
port number to use for connecting to the remote server.
For example, example.com, testuser@example.com,
testuser@example.com:2222, or example.com:2244.
-x, --exclude=*subnet*
: explicitly exclude this subnet from forwarding. The
format of this option is the same as the `<subnets>`
.. option:: -x, --exclude=subnet
Explicitly exclude this subnet from forwarding. The
format of this option is the same as the ``<subnets>``
option. To exclude more than one subnet, specify the
`-x` option more than once. You can say something like
`0/0 -x 1.2.3.0/24` to forward everything except the
``-x`` option more than once. You can say something like
``0/0 -x 1.2.3.0/24`` to forward everything except the
local subnet over the VPN, for example.
-X, --exclude-from=*file*
: exclude the subnets specified in a file, one subnet per
.. option:: -X, --exclude-from=file
Exclude the subnets specified in a file, one subnet per
line. Useful when you have lots of subnets to exclude.
-v, --verbose
: print more information about the session. This option
.. option:: -v, --verbose
Print more information about the session. This option
can be used more than once for increased verbosity. By
default, sshuttle prints only error messages.
default, :program:`sshuttle` prints only error messages.
-e, --ssh-cmd
: the command to use to connect to the remote server. The
default is just `ssh`. Use this if your ssh client is
.. option:: -e, --ssh-cmd
The command to use to connect to the remote server. The
default is just ``ssh``. Use this if your ssh client is
in a non-standard location or you want to provide extra
options to the ssh command, for example, `-e 'ssh -v'`.
options to the ssh command, for example, ``-e 'ssh -v'``.
--seed-hosts
: a comma-separated list of hostnames to use to
initialize the `--auto-hosts` scan algorithm.
`--auto-hosts` does things like poll local SMB servers
.. option:: --seed-hosts
A comma-separated list of hostnames to use to
initialize the :option:`--auto-hosts` scan algorithm.
:option:`--auto-hosts` does things like poll local SMB servers
for lists of local hostnames, but can speed things up
if you use this option to give it a few names to start
from.
--no-latency-control
: sacrifice latency to improve bandwidth benchmarks. ssh
.. option:: --no-latency-control
Sacrifice latency to improve bandwidth benchmarks. ssh
uses really big socket buffers, which can overload the
connection if you start doing large file transfers,
thus making all your other sessions inside the same
tunnel go slowly. Normally, sshuttle tries to avoid
tunnel go slowly. Normally, :program:`sshuttle` tries to avoid
this problem using a "fullness check" that allows only
a certain amount of outstanding data to be buffered at
a time. But on high-bandwidth links, this can leave a
lot of your bandwidth underutilized. It also makes
sshuttle seem slow in bandwidth benchmarks (benchmarks
rarely test ping latency, which is what sshuttle is
:program:`sshuttle` seem slow in bandwidth benchmarks (benchmarks
rarely test ping latency, which is what :program:`sshuttle` is
trying to control). This option disables the latency
control feature, maximizing bandwidth usage. Use at
your own risk.
-D, --daemon
: automatically fork into the background after connecting
to the remote server. Implies `--syslog`.
.. option:: -D, --daemon
--syslog
: after connecting, send all log messages to the
`syslog`(3) service instead of stderr. This is
implicit if you use `--daemon`.
Automatically fork into the background after connecting
to the remote server. Implies :option:`--syslog`.
--pidfile=*pidfilename*
: when using `--daemon`, save sshuttle's pid to
*pidfilename*. The default is `sshuttle.pid` in the
.. option:: --syslog
after connecting, send all log messages to the
:manpage:`syslog(3)` service instead of stderr. This is
implicit if you use :option:`--daemon`.
.. option:: --pidfile=pidfilename
when using :option:`--daemon`, save :program:`sshuttle`'s pid to
*pidfilename*. The default is ``sshuttle.pid`` in the
current directory.
--firewall
: (internal use only) run the firewall manager. This is
the only part of sshuttle that must run as root. If
you start sshuttle as a non-root user, it will
automatically run `sudo` or `su` to start the firewall
manager, but the core of sshuttle still runs as a
.. option:: --firewall
(internal use only) run the firewall manager. This is
the only part of :program:`sshuttle` that must run as root. If
you start :program:`sshuttle` as a non-root user, it will
automatically run ``sudo`` or ``su`` to start the firewall
manager, but the core of :program:`sshuttle` still runs as a
normal user.
--hostwatch
: (internal use only) run the hostwatch daemon. This
.. option:: --hostwatch
(internal use only) run the hostwatch daemon. This
process runs on the server side and collects hostnames for
the `--auto-hosts` option. Using this option by itself
makes it a lot easier to debug and test the `--auto-hosts`
the :option:`--auto-hosts` option. Using this option by itself
makes it a lot easier to debug and test the :option:`--auto-hosts`
feature.
# EXAMPLES
Test locally by proxying all local connections, without using ssh:
Examples
--------
Test locally by proxying all local connections, without using ssh::
$ sshuttle -v 0/0
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c : SW#6:192.168.42.106:50035: deleting
Test connection to a remote server, with automatic hostname
and subnet guessing:
and subnet guessing::
$ sshuttle -vNHr example.org
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c : SW#6:192.168.42.121:60554: deleting
# DISCUSSION
When it starts, sshuttle creates an ssh session to the
server specified by the `-r` option. If `-r` is omitted,
Discussion
----------
When it starts, :program:`sshuttle` creates an ssh session to the
server specified by the ``-r`` option. If ``-r`` is omitted,
it will start both its client and server locally, which is
sometimes useful for testing.
After connecting to the remote server, sshuttle uploads its
After connecting to the remote server, :program:`sshuttle` uploads its
(python) source code to the remote end and executes it
there. Thus, you don't need to install sshuttle on the
remote server, and there are never sshuttle version
there. Thus, you don't need to install :program:`sshuttle` on the
remote server, and there are never :program:`sshuttle` version
conflicts between client and server.
Unlike most VPNs, sshuttle forwards sessions, not packets.
Unlike most VPNs, :program:`sshuttle` forwards sessions, not packets.
That is, it uses kernel transparent proxying (`iptables
REDIRECT` rules on Linux) to
capture outgoing TCP sessions, then creates entirely
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implement their own encryption from scratch, which is very
complex and error prone.
sshuttle's simplicity comes from the fact that it can
:program:`sshuttle`'s simplicity comes from the fact that it can
safely use the existing ssh encrypted tunnel without
incurring a performance penalty. It does this by letting
the client-side kernel manage the incoming tcp stream, and
@ -256,6 +272,6 @@ between the two separate streams, so a tcp-based tunnel is
fine.
# SEE ALSO
`ssh`(1), `python`(1)
See Also
--------
:manpage:`ssh(1)`, :manpage:`python(1)`

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Overview
========
As far as I know, sshuttle is the only program that solves the following
common case:
- Your client machine (or router) is Linux, FreeBSD, or MacOS.
- You have access to a remote network via ssh.
- You don't necessarily have admin access on the remote network.
- The remote network has no VPN, or only stupid/complex VPN
protocols (IPsec, PPTP, etc). Or maybe you *are* the
admin and you just got frustrated with the awful state of
VPN tools.
- You don't want to create an ssh port forward for every
single host/port on the remote network.
- You hate openssh's port forwarding because it's randomly
slow and/or stupid.
- You can't use openssh's PermitTunnel feature because
it's disabled by default on openssh servers; plus it does
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Requirements
============
Client side Requirements
------------------------
- sudo, or root access on your client machine.
(The server doesn't need admin access.)
- Python 2.7 or Python 3.5.
+-------+--------+------------+-----------------------------------------------+
| OS | Method | Features | Requirements |
+=======+========+============+===============================================+
| Linux | NAT | * IPv4 TCP + iptables DNAT, REDIRECT, and ttl modules. |
+ +--------+------------+-----------------------------------------------+
| | TPROXY | * IPv4 TCP + Linux with TPROXY support. |
| | | * IPv4 UDP + Python 3.5 preferred (see below). |
| | | * IPv6 TCP + Python 2 may require PyXAPI_ (see below). |
| | | * IPv6 UDP + |
+-------+--------+------------+-----------------------------------------------+
| MacOS | PF | * IPv4 TCP + You need to have the pfctl command. |
+-------+--------+------------+-----------------------------------------------+
.. _PyXAPI: http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~ylg/PyXAPI/
Server side Requirements
------------------------
Python 2.7 or Python 3.5.
Additional Suggested Software
-----------------------------
- You may want to use autossh, available in various package management
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Support
=======
Mailing list:
* Subscribe by sending a message to <sshuttle+subscribe@googlegroups.com>
* List archives are at: http://groups.google.com/group/sshuttle
Issue tracker and pull requests at github:
* https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle

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Useless Trivia
==============
This section written by the original author, Avery Pennarun
<apenwarr@gmail.com>.
Back in 1998 (12 years ago! Yikes!), I released the first version of `Tunnel
Vision <http://alumnit.ca/wiki/?TunnelVisionReadMe>`_, a semi-intelligent VPN
client for Linux. Unfortunately, I made two big mistakes: I implemented the
key exchange myself (oops), and I ended up doing TCP-over-TCP (double oops).
The resulting program worked okay - and people used it for years - but the
performance was always a bit funny. And nobody ever found any security flaws
in my key exchange, either, but that doesn't mean anything. :)
The same year, dcoombs and I also released Fast Forward, a proxy server
supporting transparent proxying. Among other things, we used it for
automatically splitting traffic across more than one Internet connection (a
tool we called "Double Vision").
I was still in university at the time. A couple years after that, one of my
professors was working with some graduate students on the technology that would
eventually become `Slipstream Internet Acceleration
<http://www.slipstream.com/>`_. He asked me to do a contract for him to build
an initial prototype of a transparent proxy server for mobile networks. The
idea was similar to sshuttle: if you reassemble and then disassemble the TCP
packets, you can reduce latency and improve performance vs. just forwarding
the packets over a plain VPN or mobile network. (It's unlikely that any of my
code has persisted in the Slipstream product today, but the concept is still
pretty cool. I'm still horrified that people use plain TCP on complex mobile
networks with crazily variable latency, for which it was never really
intended.)
That project I did for Slipstream was what first gave me the idea to merge
the concepts of Fast Forward, Double Vision, and Tunnel Vision into a single
program that was the best of all worlds. And here we are, at last, 10 years
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Usage
=====
- Forward all traffic::
sshuttle -r username@sshserver 0.0.0.0/0
- By default sshuttle will automatically choose a method to use. Override with
the ``--method=`` parameter.
- There is a shortcut for 0.0.0.0/0 for those that value
their wrists::
sshuttle -r username@sshserver 0/0
- If you would also like your DNS queries to be proxied
through the DNS server of the server you are connect to::
sshuttle --dns -r username@sshserver 0/0
The above is probably what you want to use to prevent
local network attacks such as Firesheep and friends.
(You may be prompted for one or more passwords; first, the local password to
become root using sudo, and then the remote ssh password. Or you might have
sudo and ssh set up to not require passwords, in which case you won't be
prompted at all.)
Usage Notes
-----------
That's it! Now your local machine can access the remote network as if you
were right there. And if your "client" machine is a router, everyone on
your local network can make connections to your remote network.
You don't need to install sshuttle on the remote server;
the remote server just needs to have python available.
sshuttle will automatically upload and run its source code
to the remote python interpreter.
This creates a transparent proxy server on your local machine for all IP
addresses that match 0.0.0.0/0. (You can use more specific IP addresses if
you want; use any number of IP addresses or subnets to change which
addresses get proxied. Using 0.0.0.0/0 proxies *everything*, which is
interesting if you don't trust the people on your local network.)
Any TCP session you initiate to one of the proxied IP addresses will be
captured by sshuttle and sent over an ssh session to the remote copy of
sshuttle, which will then regenerate the connection on that end, and funnel
the data back and forth through ssh.
Fun, right? A poor man's instant VPN, and you don't even have to have
admin access on the server.
Additional information for TPROXY
---------------------------------
TPROXY is the only method that supports full support of IPv6 and UDP.
Full UDP or DNS support with the TPROXY method requires the ``recvmsg()``
syscall. This is not available in Python 2, however is in Python 3.5 and
later. Under Python 2 you might find it sufficient installing PyXAPI_ to get
the ``recvmsg()`` function.
There are some things you need to consider for TPROXY to work:
- The following commands need to be run first as root. This only needs to be
done once after booting up::
ip route add local default dev lo table 100
ip rule add fwmark 1 lookup 100
ip -6 route add local default dev lo table 100
ip -6 rule add fwmark 1 lookup 100
- The ``--auto-nets`` feature does not detect IPv6 routes automatically. Add IPv6
routes manually. e.g. by adding ``'::/0'`` to the end of the command line.
- The client needs to be run as root. e.g.::
sudo SSH_AUTH_SOCK="$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" $HOME/tree/sshuttle.tproxy/sshuttle --method=tproxy ...
- You may need to exclude the IP address of the server you are connecting to.
Otherwise sshuttle may attempt to intercept the ssh packets, which will not
work. Use the ``--exclude`` parameter for this.
- Similarly, UDP return packets (including DNS) could get intercepted and
bounced back. This is the case if you have a broad subnet such as
``0.0.0.0/0`` or ``::/0`` that includes the IP address of the client. Use the
``--exclude`` parameter for this.
- You need the ``--method=tproxy`` parameter, as above.
- The routes for the outgoing packets must already exist. For example, if your
connection does not have IPv6 support, no IPv6 routes will exist, IPv6
packets will not be generated and sshuttle cannot intercept them::
telnet -6 www.google.com 80
Trying 2404:6800:4001:805::1010...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Network is unreachable
Add some dummy routes to external interfaces. Make sure they get removed
however after sshuttle exits.