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sshuttle
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apenwarr / sshuttle

sshuttle

Wrong project! You should head over to http://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle

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What it is

Wrong project! You should head over to http://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

sshuttle (https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle) is one of my favorite SSH tricks. It behaves like a VPN more than other ssh-based proxies that I've used.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year70 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2010-09-08 20:56:13 UTC to 2024-07-28 04:25:32 UTC.

0510152010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments20102011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 15 mentions; 2 submissions, 13 comments2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 1 submissions, 9 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 0 submissions, 10 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 2 submissions, 11 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 2 submissions, 5 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20102010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC15213
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1019
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC10010
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC13211
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC725
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

From the project README

An excerpt from the repository, fetched Nov 13, 2026.

Read the project’s introduction
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 (see below). Obtaining sshuttle From PyPI: pip install sshuttle Clone: git clone https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle.git ./setup.py install Documentation The documentation for the stable version is available at: http://sshuttle.readthedocs.org/ The documentation for the latest development version is available at: http://sshuttle.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
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What Hacker News says

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ignoramous·Apr 29, 2020
This is great. Congratulations on the launch. It reminds me of DERP [0]. A few questions: 1. What are the top few things in the protocol that improved speed upto 6x in comparison to ngrok? 2. Is Lynk based on your earlier work on Parasite? 3. The website claims "CDN-like performance" with "highly-available load-balancers" over the tunnel, and so: 3a. Is the limit on number of connections (100 to 200 per minute) a soft limit? Can it be raised? If so, by how much? 3b. Do you have servers across the globe like CDNs do? Or, plan to? 4. I see a flat $5 fee for enterprise usage and a notice about "no tricks pricing"... Is bandwidth something you monitor for "fair-use" and might charge extra for? Or, is bandwidth simply unlimited? 5. "Lynk Web UI for Request Capture and Playback" Neat. And so: 5a. This works for both TCP and HTTP? Any video/scr
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eencast that shows this in action? 5b. Is the HTTP tunnel a reverse-proxy or in fact a HTTP CONNECT tunnel or something else? 5c. Does TCP tunnel over SSH? Or HTTP? Or both? Or neither? 5d. How do you deal with TCP over TCP performance issues, if at all: https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle/blob/master/docs/how-it... You might want to update the FAQ section of your website. It seems to be out-of-date. Thanks. [0] https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/tree/master/derp
In Show HN: Lynk – Securely expose local TCP and HTTP services to the web
lima·Jul 23, 2017
How is it different from sshuttle, which does not need remote root? https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle Edit: xiringuito uses the SSH tun/tap feature, which does TCP-over-TCP tunneling (which performs badly[1]). sshuttle instead multiplexes the TCP streams over a single connection by capturing them and opening a new TCP session at the remote end. This means it does not need root permissions on the remote side, since it does not need any raw sockets or even create tap devices. The SOCKS proxy and the port forwards (-L, -R etc) work similarly, it's just the tunnel feature which should be avoided since it forwards whole packets. [1]: http://sites.inka.de/bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html
In Show HN: A simple SSH VPN client

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