ivanilves/xiringuito

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1160 stars · 46 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Xiringuito is a shell-script-based SSH tunneling tool that provides VPN-like access to remote networks without running a VPN server. It uses built-in SSH capabilities to route traffic to specified subnets through an SSH bastion host.

Use cases

• access private AWS VPC subnets through a bastion host without a VPN server
• connect to remote office networks over SSH from a laptop
• run multiple simultaneous tunnels to non-overlapping networks
• automatically discover routes to cloud subnets via AWS CLI
• quickly give a developer access to internal services with zero VPN setup

When to choose

• you need lightweight VPN-like access using only SSH and no VPN infrastructure
• you have sudo on both local and remote machines and want zero-configuration networking
• you want per-host or per-cloud route discovery instead of a full VPN client

When to avoid

• you need full-tunnel VPN with all traffic routed
• you require Windows support or high-performance encrypted transport
• you cannot obtain sudo privileges on the remote SSH server

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

vpn networking ssh security networking security privacy self-hosted cli ssh-tunnel bastion-host vpn-alternative shell-script aws route-discovery command-line linux macos

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