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Sshuttle is awesome. Comparing the ease of use to openvpn, it's night and day..

Indeed I was looking to create a VPN and found it complicated - saw sshuttle and found it awesomely easy (blog post about it http://alicious.com/cheap-vpn-using-sshuttle/ [has aff links in post]). My commandline was:

    sshuttle –dns -rv root@128.199.xxx.xxx 0/0 –exclude 192.168.0.0/9 # start sshuttle

-dns routes dns requests over the link

-rv remote server details (v for verbose output)

-exclude to not send traffic from local addresses over the link (not sure if this is required)

I've found performance (bandwidth) on sshuttle to be poorer than OpenVPN.

It's definitely below what you get with a true VPN, but it's a great option when combined with an SSH server listening on port 443 to get any kind of "VPN" on a locked down network (like most airport WiFi, for example).

I wrote a guide on using Softener VPN which I found much easier to use than other VPN software:

http://www.selectedintelligence.com/post/128701492804/softet...

Our prototype used autossh actually but later we needed something a bit easier to manage. Disclaimer: I am not a networking or security expert.

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