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Charly's Column – sshuttle
When he doesn't want to deal with OpenVPN version conflicts or congestion control problems during TCP tunneling, Charly catches a ride on sshuttle.
In untrustworthy networks, I let OpenVPN tunnel my laptop. There are certainly alternatives, and I would like to present a particularly simple one: sshuttle [1]. As the name suggests, the tool relies on SSH. The tunnel's endpoint is a leased root server, just like with OpenVPN. Sshuttle is very frugal. It only needs SSH access with user privileges on the server; root privileges are not necessary. Additionally, Python must be installed on the server – that's it.
This is because sshuttle loads and executes the required Python code on the server after the SSH connection is established. It also avoids version conflicts between server and client software. The following command is all it takes to set up the tunnel:
sudo sshuttle -r <User>@<Server>:<Port> 0/0
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