Bug#620897: ITP: sshuttle -- Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

]] Miguel Landaeta 

|  sshuttle is not exactly a VPN, and not exactly port forwarding.
|  It's kind of both, and kind of neither.
|  .
|  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.
|  .
|  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.

This sounds a lot like what a SOCKS proxy does?  What does this provide
over using ssh -D and tsocks?

Cheers,
-- 
Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are