Bug#620897: ITP: sshuttle -- Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> wrote:
> Yes, this is what tsocks does, it enables socks support for any
> application.
Well, that's right.
However, I prefer sshuttle approach of redirecting all outgoing traffic with
iptables instead of tsocks approach of setting environment variable
LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libtsocks.so for all applications.
Additionally, with tsocks you have to force usage of TCP for DNS queries.
sshuttle doesn't need that, it just redirects DNS using UDP through the
tunnel.
tsocks and sshuttle have different use-cases, one doesn't replace the other.
IME, sshuttle is great to be used with laptops on untrusted WLANs, all I need
is the login information to access a remote and trusted host via ssh.
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