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, MacOS or Windows.

• 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_.

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

Obtaining sshuttle

Please see the documentation_.

.. _Documentation: https://sshuttle.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installation.html

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/

Running as a service

Sshuttle can also be run as a service and configured using a config management system: https://medium.com/@mike.reider/using-sshuttle-as-a-service-bec2684a65fe