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When you are running a SOCKS proxy through ssh, you are not doing TCP over TCP. We are talking about things like OpenVPN which can do TCP over TCP, but that is

When you are running a SOCKS proxy through ssh, you are not doing TCP over TCP. We are talking about things like OpenVPN which can do TCP over TCP, but that is generally a bad idea. It's default mode is TCP over UDP, as it should be.

chias 12y ago
> When you are running a SOCKS proxy through ssh, you are not doing TCP over TCP Are you sure? SSH uses TCP, and encapsulates the web traffic which also uses TCP... in what way is that not TCP over TCP?
- jerf 12y ago
  Here, read this: https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle#theory-of-operation https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle#theory-of-operation "TCP-over-TCP" and "TCP carried on something that happen to be TCP" turn out to be two very different things.
  - chias 12y ago
    Thank you for the link :)