Bug#620897: ITP: sshuttle -- Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 08:40:49AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> This sounds a lot like what a SOCKS proxy does? What does this provide
> over using ssh -D and tsocks?
Yes, it sounds a lot like a SOCKS proxy.
However, what sshuttle does is listen on a port, creates an iptables chain
and redirect all outgoing TCP/IP and DNS traffic to this port securely
through a SSH session. So, it is more featureful than -D flag of ssh.
It is a very useful tool for untrusted LANs since you can tunnel almost
all your traffic to a trusted host and not just web traffic through the
SOCKS feature.
Please take a look at https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle.
sshuttle is already in Debian as I found out after I filed this ITP.
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