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A fresh implementation of Shadowsocks in Go.
GoDoc at https://godoc.org/github.com/riobard/go-shadowsocks2/
Pre-built binaries are available from https://github.com/riobard/go-shadowsocks2/releases
You can also build from source:
go get -u -v github.com/riobard/go-shadowsocks2
Requires Go >= 1.10.
Start a server listening on port 8488 using AEAD_CHACHA20_POLY1305 AEAD cipher with password your-password.
go-shadowsocks2 -s ss://AEAD_CHACHA20_POLY1305:your-password@:8488 -verbose
Start a client connecting to the above server. The client listens on port 1080 for incoming SOCKS5 connections, and tunnels both UDP and TCP on port 8053 and port 8054 to 8.8.8.8:53 and 8.8.4.4:53 respectively.
go-shadowsocks2 -c ss://AEAD_CHACHA20_POLY1305:PASSWORD@[server_address]:8488 \
-verbose -socks :1080 -udptun :8053=8.8.8.8:53,:8054=8.8.4.4:53 \
-tcptun :8053=8.8.8.8:53,:8054=8.8.4.4:53
Replace [server_address] with the server's public address.
The client offers -redir and -redir6 (for IPv6) options to handle TCP connections
redirected by Netfilter on Linux. The feature works similar to ss-redir from shadowsocks-libev.
Start a client listening on port 1082 for redirected TCP connections and port 1083 for redirected TCP IPv6 connections.
go-shadowsocks2 -c ss://AEAD_CHACHA20_POLY1305:PASSWORD@[server_address]:8488 -redir :1082 -redir6 :1083
The client offers -tcptun [local_addr]:[local_port]=[remote_addr]:[remote_port] option to tunnel TCP.
For example it can be used to proxy iperf3 for benchmarking.
Start iperf3 on the same machine with the server.
iperf3 -s
By default iperf3 listens on port 5201.
Start a client on the same machine with the server. The client listens on port 1090 for incoming connections and tunnels to localhost:5201 where iperf3 is listening.
go-shadowsocks2 -c ss://AEAD_CHACHA20_POLY1305:PASSWORD@[server_address]:8488 -tcptun :1090=localhost:5201
Start iperf3 client to connect to the tunneld port instead
iperf3 -c localhost -p 1090
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