]] Miguel Landaeta | On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 08:40:49AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > This sounds a lot like what a SOCKS proxy does? What does this provide | > over using ssh -D and tsocks? | | Yes, it sounds a lot like a SOCKS proxy. | | However, what sshuttle does is listen on a port, creates an iptables chain | and redirect all outgoing TCP/IP and DNS traffic to this port securely | through a SSH session. So, it is more featureful than -D flag of ssh.
No, this is what SOCKS does for you. | It is a very useful tool for untrusted LANs since you can tunnel almost | all your traffic to a trusted host and not just web traffic through the | SOCKS feature. Yes, this is what tsocks does, it enables socks support for any application. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
