redsocks VS transocks

Compare redsocks vs transocks and see what are their differences.

redsocks

transparent TCP-to-proxy redirector (by darkk)

transocks

Transparent SOCKS5 / HTTP proxy in Go (by cybozu-go)
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0.0 0.0
10 days ago about 1 year ago
C Go
- MIT License
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redsocks

Posts with mentions or reviews of redsocks. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-19.

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 redsocks and transocks you can also consider the following projects:

gluetun - VPN client in a thin Docker container for multiple VPN providers, written in Go, and using OpenVPN or Wireguard, DNS over TLS, with a few proxy servers built-in.

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

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

tsocks - tsocks, a transparent SOCKS proxying library.

rsp - Rapid SSH Proxy

ts-warp - Transparent proxy server and traffic wrapper

knowledge

nordvpn - NordVpn Docker Client

Burrow-Client - DNS Tunneling Client for iOS

poor-mans-vpn - An ansible playbook to set up wireguard server.

GoodbyeDPI - GoodbyeDPI — Deep Packet Inspection circumvention utility (for Windows)