microsocks vs rsp

microsocks

tiny, portable SOCKS5 server with very moderate resource usage (by rofl0r)

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rsp

Rapid SSH Proxy (by Snawoot)

SSH ssh-tunnel ssh-client socks5-proxy socks-proxy socks-server Socks Socks5 socks5-server

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microsocks		rsp
	Project
2	Mentions	2
1,312	Stars	309
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	1.5
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	12 months ago
C	Language	Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

microsocks

Posts with mentions or reviews of microsocks. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-11.

Using proxy password with a program that doesn't take a proxy password
2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 11 Jun 2022

Some people suggested using https://github.com/rofl0r/microsocks with it but I can't tell how to make them work together.
Making a Proxy Server
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 27 Jan 2021

rsp

Posts with mentions or reviews of rsp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-12.

TorBox v0.4.0 Released
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Apr 2021

BTW, here is SSH proxy which uses pool of steady connections: https://github.com/Snawoot/rsp
VPN over SSH? The Socks Proxy
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Mar 2021

I used this feature pretty often, but it has one downside: all connections are multiplexed into single one which is not good for performance.
So I've implemented own client which decouples connections from each other: https://github.com/Snawoot/rsp#performance
Basicly, you get working proxy with speed almost as native connection as soon as you have SSH access somewhere.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing microsocks and rsp you can also consider the following projects:

3proxy - 3proxy - tiny free proxy server

shadowsocks-libev - Bug-fix-only libev port of shadowsocks. Future development moved to shadowsocks-rust

wireproxy - Wireguard client that exposes itself as a socks5 proxy

parallel-ssh - Asynchronous parallel SSH client library.

DisPro - SOCKS5/Transparent load balancing proxy developed in Go, combines multiple internet connections.

transocks - Transparent SOCKS5 / HTTP proxy in Go

socks5-proxy-server - SOCKS5 proxy server

pubsub-c - Pub/Sub library for C

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

proxychains-ng - proxychains ng (new generation) - a preloader which hooks calls to sockets in dynamically linked programs and redirects it through one or more socks/http proxies. continuation of the unmaintained proxychains project. the sf.net page is currently not updated, use releases from github release page instead.

shadowsocks