1 As far as I (the author) knows, sshuttle is the only program that solves
2 the following common case:
4 * Your client machine (or router) is Linux, FreeBSD, or MacOS.
5 * You have access to a remote network via ssh.
6 * You don't necessarily have admin access on the remote network.
7 * The remote network has no VPN, or only stupid/complex VPN protocols
8 (IPsec, PPTP, etc). Or maybe you are the admin and you just got
9 frustrated with the awful state of VPN tools.
10 * You don't want to create an ssh port forward for every single host/port
11 on the remote network.
12 * You hate openssh's port forwarding because it's randomly slow and/or
14 * You can't use openssh's PermitTunnel feature because it's disabled by
15 default on openssh servers; plus it does TCP-over-TCP, which has