SShuttle - quick and temporary VPN over SSH

By Leo Gaggl

Every once in a while you find a gem. One of these for me is SShuttle – until now I have not known about this one.

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Use-case: I just been trying to get Ubuntu Make to install Eclipse IDE and the local AARNET download mirror is just refusing to cooperate (https://github.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-make/issues/90). A quick forward to a remote VPS fixed the issue without headaches

Install

sudo apt-get install sshuttle

Run

sshuttle -r username@servername.tld 0.0.0.0/0 -vv

That’s all – it sets up routing & iptable rules transparently and removes them after use. Kudos goes to https://github.com/apenwarr – thank you. A VERY useful utility !!!