copperwall/socks

A script to open an SSH Tunnel and enable a SOCKS proxy on OSX

Socks

Start up an SSH Tunnel and enable a SOCKS proxy with one script

Install

git clone https://github.com/copperwall/socks.git

# Copy the script to a directory in your path, like ~/bin
cp socks/socks ~/bin

Usage

# Initiate the SSH tunnel and enable SOCKS proxy on WiFi
socks on

# Tear everything down
socks off

socks's Issues

Add a reconnect subcommand

Sometimes SSH connections die (closing a laptop, losing connection, etc.). It would be nice if a user could type socks reconnect and it would attempt to kill of the old connection (if it still exists) and start a new connection.

Add a status subcommand

So it'd be nice to know what the current status is of the SSH connection and the proxy settings.

socks status could determine whether or not the SSH tunnel is running from looking for the pid in the pid file and then it could check whether or not the proxy is enabled.