doc22940 / sshuttle

Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN. Forwards over ssh. Doesn't require admin. Works with Linux and MacOS. Supports DNS tunneling.

sshuttle: where transparent proxy meets VPN meets ssh

As far as I know, sshuttle is the only program that solves the following common case:

• Your client machine (or router) is Linux, FreeBSD, or MacOS.
• You have access to a remote network via ssh.
• You don't necessarily have admin access on the remote network.
• The remote network has no VPN, or only stupid/complex VPN protocols (IPsec, PPTP, etc). Or maybe you are the admin and you just got frustrated with the awful state of VPN tools.
• You don't want to create an ssh port forward for every single host/port on the remote network.
• You hate openssh's port forwarding because it's randomly slow and/or stupid.
• You can't use openssh's PermitTunnel feature because it's disabled by default on openssh servers; plus it does TCP-over-TCP, which has terrible performance.

Obtaining sshuttle

• Debian stretch or later:

  apt-get install sshuttle

• Arch Linux:

  pacman -S sshuttle

• Fedora:

  dnf install sshuttle

• NixOS:

  nix-env -iA nixos.sshuttle

• From PyPI:

  sudo pip install sshuttle

• Clone:

  git clone https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle.git
  cd sshuttle
  sudo ./setup.py install

• FreeBSD:

  # ports
  cd /usr/ports/net/py-sshuttle && make install clean
  # pkg
  pkg install py36-sshuttle

It is also possible to install into a virtualenv as a non-root user.

• From PyPI:

  virtualenv -p python3 /tmp/sshuttle
  . /tmp/sshuttle/bin/activate
  pip install sshuttle

• Clone:

  virtualenv -p python3 /tmp/sshuttle
  . /tmp/sshuttle/bin/activate
  git clone https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle.git
  cd sshuttle
  ./setup.py install

• Homebrew:

  brew install sshuttle

• Nix:

  nix-env -iA nixpkgs.sshuttle

Documentation

The documentation for the stable version is available at: https://sshuttle.readthedocs.org/

The documentation for the latest development version is available at: https://sshuttle.readthedocs.org/en/latest/