tunsocks
User-level IP forwarding, SOCKS proxy, and HTTP proxy for VPNs that provide tun-like interface (by russdill)
slirpnetstack
slirp4netns implementation using gvisor/netstack (by majek)
| tunsocks | slirpnetstack | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | |
| 311 | 107 | |
| - | 0.0% | |
| 3.8 | 0.0 | |
| about 1 month ago | 5 months ago | |
| C | Go | |
| - | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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tunsocks
Posts with mentions or reviews of tunsocks.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-26.
- A userspace WireGuard client that exposes itself as a proxy
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SSH and User-Mode IP WireGuard
tunsocks[0] might be of interest to you. It's very similar to the software mentioned by OP except in C. It uses the lwIP usermode tcp/ip stack. It doesn't itself have any VPN or tunneling support, but instead relies on raw packets being passed into and out of a pipe. It can then provide access to that network via various proxies, port forwards, and even raw packets via NAT (very useful for VMs).
[0]: https://github.com/russdill/tunsocks
slirpnetstack
Posts with mentions or reviews of slirpnetstack.
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SSH and User-Mode IP WireGuard
This sounds very similar to my slirpnetstack, which is using gvisor netstack to do, which I call translating L3 (packets) into L7 (userspace syscalls like connect()):
https://github.com/majek/slirpnetstack/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing tunsocks and slirpnetstack you can also consider the following projects:
wireproxy - Wireguard client that exposes itself as a socks5 proxy
onetun - User space WireGuard port-forward in Rust
esp_wireguard - WireGuard Implementation for ESP-IDF
ini - Package ini provides INI file read and write functionality in Go
tailscale - The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.
wireguard-vyatta-ubnt - WireGuard for Ubiquiti Devices
systemd - The systemd System and Service Manager