shadowsocks

A fast tunnel proxy that helps you bypass firewalls.

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Install

You'll have a client on your local side, and setup a server on a remote server.

Client

• Windows / OS X
• Android / iOS
• OpenWRT

Server

Debian / Ubuntu:

apt-get install python-pip
pip install shadowsocks

Or simply apt-get install shadowsocks if you have Debian sid in your source list.

CentOS:

yum install python-setuptools
easy_install pip
pip install shadowsocks

Windows:

Download OpenSSL for Windows and install. Then install shadowsocks via easy_install and pip as Linux. If you don't know how to use them, you can directly download the package, and use python shadowsocks/server.py instead of ssserver command below.

Configuration

On your server create a config file /etc/shadowsocks.json. Example:

{
    "server":"my_server_ip",
    "server_port":8388,
    "local_address": "127.0.0.1",
    "local_port":1080,
    "password":"mypassword",
    "timeout":300,
    "method":"aes-256-cfb",
    "fast_open": false
}

Explanation of the fields:

Name	Explanation
server	the address your server listens
server_port	server port
local_address	the address your local listens
local_port	local port
password	password used for encryption
timeout	in seconds
method	default: "aes-256-cfb", see Encryption
fast_open	use TCP_FASTOPEN, true / false
workers	number of workers, available on Unix/Linux

On your server:

To run in the foreground:

ssserver -c /etc/shadowsocks.json

To run in the background:

ssserver -c /etc/shadowsocks.json -d start
ssserver -c /etc/shadowsocks.json -d stop

On your client machine, use the same configuration as your server. Check the README of your client for more information.

Command Line Options

Check the options via -h.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 --workers 2
ssserver -c /etc/shadowsocks/config.json -d start --pid-file=/tmp/shadowsocks.pid
ssserver -c /etc/shadowsocks/config.json -d stop --pid-file=/tmp/shadowsocks.pid

Documentation

You can find all the documentation in the wiki: https://github.com/clowwindy/shadowsocks/wiki

License

MIT

Bugs and Issues

• Troubleshooting
• Issue Tracker
• Mailing list