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

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

]] Miguel Landaeta 

| 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.

No, this is what SOCKS does for you.

| 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.

Yes, this is what tsocks does, it enables socks support for any
application.

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Tollef Fog Heen
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