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_.

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

Obtaining sshuttle

• Ubuntu 16.04 or later::

  apt-get install sshuttle
  

• Debian stretch or later::

  apt-get install sshuttle
  

• Arch Linux::

  pacman -S sshuttle
  

• Fedora::

  dnf install sshuttle
  

• openSUSE::

  zypper in sshuttle
  

• Gentoo::

  emerge -av net-proxy/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 py39-sshuttle
  

• OpenBSD::

  pkg_add sshuttle
  

• macOS, via MacPorts::

  sudo port selfupdate
  sudo port install 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/

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