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sshuttle: where transparent proxy meets VPN meets ssh
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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
TCP-over-TCP, which has terrible performance (see below).
Obtaining sshuttle
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- Debian stretch or later::
apt-get install sshuttle
- From PyPI::
sudo pip install sshuttle
- Clone::
git clone https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle.git
sudo ./setup.py install
It is also possible to install into a virtualenv as a non-root user.
- From PyPI::
virtualenv -p python3 /tmp/sshuttle
. /tmp/sshuttle/bin/activate
pip install sshuttle
- Clone::
virtualenv -p python3 /tmp/sshuttle
. /tmp/sshuttle/bin/activate
git clone https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle.git
./setup.py install
- Homebrew::
brew install sshuttle
Documentation
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The documentation for the stable version is available at:
http://sshuttle.readthedocs.org/
The documentation for the latest development version is available at:
http://sshuttle.readthedocs.org/en/latest/