mellow vs transocks

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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transocks

Transparent SOCKS5 / HTTP proxy in Go (by cybozu-go)

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mellow		transocks
	Project
1	Mentions	2
3,524	Stars	443
0.0%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	about 1 year ago
JavaScript	Language	Go
-	License	MIT License

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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

transocks

Posts with mentions or reviews of transocks. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-15.

Arti 0.1.0: Tor re-written in Rust now has a stable API
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Mar 2022

I don't think you can generally expect all processes to transparently use a SOCKS proxy? You might be able to finagle a custom vpn around it, I suppose. But AFAIK SOCKS isn't 100% transparent at the IP layer allowing all protocols to transparently layer on top?
I guess SOCKS5 handles tcp and udp - so you might get away with redsocks (which explicitly recommends against using with TOR):
https://github.com/darkk/redsocks
See also transocks (SOCKS4 tcp only): https://transocks.sourceforge.net
And transocks (in go) https://github.com/cybozu-go/transocks
VPN over SSH? The Socks Proxy
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Mar 2021

There are solutions which allow to redirect transit TCP connections into SOCKS proxy transparently: https://github.com/cybozu-go/transocks
So, yes, VM/router solution will work for TCP connections.
Also there are wrappers which can intercept connect calls to libc from applications on Linux (which is useful if you need to redirect only one application which doesn't support SOCKS proxies): https://linux.die.net/man/8/tsocks

What are some alternatives?

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

pritunl-client-electron - Pritunl OpenVPN client

hev-socks5-tproxy - A simple, lightweight socks5 transparent proxy for Linux. (IPv4/IPv6/TCP/UDP)

firewalla - http://firewalla.com

redsocks - transparent TCP-to-proxy redirector

rsp - Rapid SSH Proxy

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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