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Sshuttle – VPN over SSH

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Re: Sshuttle – VPN over SSH

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Post by bodhibyte »

chrismeller wrote: post #2

Isn’t this just recreating the existing functionality you can get with a Socks proxy and stock ash?

"sshuttle assembles the TCP stream locally, multiplexes it statefully over an ssh session, and disassembles it back into packets at the other end."

Source:

https://sshuttle.readthedocs.io/en/stable/how-it-works.html

Re: Sshuttle – VPN over SSH

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Post by jaysh »

chrismeller wrote: post #2

Isn’t this just recreating the existing functionality you can get with a Socks proxy and stock ash?

The key difference is you can right full or partial traffic (by subnet) over SSH with applications not being aware - individual applications do not require SOCKS support.

Re: Sshuttle – VPN over SSH

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Post by jaysh »

jaysh wrote: post #4
chrismeller wrote: post #2

Isn’t this just recreating the existing functionality you can get with a Socks proxy and stock ash?

The key difference is you can right full or partial traffic (by subnet) over SSH with applications not being aware - individual applications do not require SOCKS support.

Route* not right. As an example, you can send traffic destined for 142.0.0.0/8 via the SSH connection, and leave everything else untouched. Any application connecting to that IP range will be automatically tunnelled via SSH.

Re: Sshuttle – VPN over SSH

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Post by chrismeller »

jaysh wrote: post #4
chrismeller wrote: post #2

Isn’t this just recreating the existing functionality you can get with a Socks proxy and stock ash?

The key difference is you can right full or partial traffic (by subnet) over SSH with applications not being aware - individual applications do not require SOCKS support.

Ahh, gotcha. That is indeed a neat feature.
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