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shadowsocks
===========
|Build Status| Current version: 1.3.0
shadowsocks is a lightweight tunnel proxy which can help you get through
firewalls
Other ports and clients can be found
`here <https://github.com/clowwindy/shadowsocks/wiki/Ports-and-Clients>`__.
Usage
-----
First, make sure you have Python 2.6 or 2.7.
::
$ python --version
Python 2.6.8
Install Shadowsocks.
::
pip install shadowsocks
Create a file named ``config.json``, with the following content.
::
{
"server":"my_server_ip",
"server_port":8388,
"local_port":1080,
"password":"barfoo!",
"timeout":600,
"method":null
}
Explaination of the fields:
::
server your server IP (IPv4/IPv6), notice that your server will listen to this IP
server_port server port
local_port local port
password a password used to encrypt transfer
timeout in seconds
method encryption method, "bf-cfb", "aes-256-cfb", "des-cfb", "rc4", etc. Default is table
``cd`` into the directory of ``config.json``. Run ``ssserver`` on your
server. To run it in the background, run ``nohup ssserver > log &``.
On your client machine, run ``sslocal``.
Change the proxy setting in your browser into
::
protocol: socks5
hostname: 127.0.0.1
port: your local_port
Command line args
-----------------
You can use args to override settings from ``config.json``.
::
sslocal -s server_name -p server_port -l local_port -k password -m bf-cfb
ssserver -p server_port -k password -m bf-cfb
ssserver -c /etc/shadowsocks/config.json
Encryption
----------
If you want to use non-default encryption method like "bf-cfb", please
install `M2Crypto <http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/MeTooCrypto>`__.
Ubuntu:
::
sudo apt-get install python-m2crypto
Others:
::
pip install M2Crypto
Performance
-----------
You may want to install gevent for better performance.
::
$ sudo apt-get install python-gevent
Or:
::
$ sudo apt-get install libevent-dev python-pip
$ sudo pip install gevent
License
-------
MIT
Bugs and Issues
---------------
Please visit `issue
tracker <https://github.com/clowwindy/shadowsocks/issues?state=open>`__
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