WirtBot vs mellow

WirtBot

Easily and securely extend your network into the cloud with a WirtBot (by b-m-f)

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mellow

Mellow is a rule-based global transparent proxy client for Windows, macOS and Linux. Also a Proxifier alternative. (by mellow-io)

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WirtBot		mellow
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6	Mentions	1
234	Stars	3,524
-	Growth	0.0%
7.2	Activity	0.0
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0	License	-

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WirtBot

Posts with mentions or reviews of WirtBot. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-12.

For CGNAT peers - is there an alternative which is open source and as simple to use as Tailscale?
6 projects | /r/WireGuard | 12 Apr 2022

I have built https://b-m-f.github.io/WirtBot/ for this use case.
I'm giving out microgrants to open source projects for the third year in a row! Brag about your projects here so I can see them, big or small!
103 projects | /r/programming | 28 Dec 2021

I wrote and maintain https://github.com/b-m-f/WirtBot .
Join your containers into a WireGuard network on spawn
3 projects | /r/WireGuard | 6 Nov 2021

Personally I use this together with https://github.com/b-m-f/WirtBot/ for keeping everything maintained, but `wg-pod` works with any `wg-quick` compatible config.
After about a year of development WirtBot is now in maintenance mode :)
1 project | /r/WirtBot | 17 Mar 2021

As for now, i am confused with this software. I'm glad I'm not the only one. ))) https://github.com/b-m-f/WirtBot/issues/112
Been some time. An update post on the WirtBot project
1 project | /r/WireGuard | 8 Mar 2021

its been almost a year since I first started working on WirtBot.
ETH staking and IP address privacy
1 project | /r/ethstaker | 27 Jan 2021

I have also built https://github.com/b-m-f/WirtBot to make the setup even easier. But this will introduce a third Node that is purely routing traffic, which might be overkill depending on your technical expertise.

mellow

Posts with mentions or reviews of mellow. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-29.

VPN over SSH? The Socks Proxy
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Mar 2021

You can use mellow[1] to turn your socks proxy to transparent global proxy. Although this software is not maintained anymore, it still works.
[1]: https://github.com/mellow-io/mellow

What are some alternatives?

When comparing WirtBot and mellow you can also consider the following projects:

wg-pod - Mount your podman container into WireGuard networks on spawn

transocks - Transparent SOCKS5 / HTTP proxy in Go

wg-gen-web - Simple Web based configuration generator for WireGuard

pritunl-client-electron - Pritunl OpenVPN client

wireguard-docs - 📖 Unofficial WireGuard Documentation: Setup, Usage, Configuration, and full example setups for VPNs supporting both servers & roaming clients.

firewalla - http://firewalla.com

lively - Free and open-source software that allows users to set animated desktop wallpapers and screensavers powered by WinUI 3.

rsp - Rapid SSH Proxy

BGPalerter - BGP and RPKI monitoring tool. Pre-configured for real-time detection of visibility loss, RPKI invalid announcements, hijacks, ROA misconfiguration, and more.

GreenTunnel - GreenTunnel is an anti-censorship utility designed to bypass the DPI system that is put in place by various ISPs to block access to certain websites.

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