Create socks5 proxies

sshx socks creates socks5 proxies by ssh’s DynamicForward option. When you connect to an server by ssh with this option, the ssh client would establish an socks5 server locally, just like the shadowsocks client, while the connected ssh server would perform the requests for you, just like the shadowsocks server.

Why create socks5 proxies with ssh? Because it’s very simple and safe.

• Simple: no need for extra softwares, easy to config and use.

• Safe: all traffic would be carried and encrypted by ssh, safer than shadowsocks.

Create an socks5 proxy listening on 127.0.0.1:1080.

sshx socks host1

Customize the listening address with --bind option.

sshx socks host1 --bind 0.0.0.0:1081

Create socks proxy with jump hosts.

sshx socks host1 -v host2,host3

Run in background with -b option.

sshx socks host1 -b

Configuration

The ssh server must enable AllowTcpForwarding option which is enabled by default. Therefore, no need to set it manually.

If you could connect to the server but cannot establish an socks5 proxy, then consider to enable this option in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the server.