Free carpal tunnel software for linux

Ptunnel is an application that allows you to reliably tunnel TCP connections to a remote host using ICMP echo request and reply packets, commonly known as ping requests and replies. At first glance, this might seem like a rather useless thing to do, but it can actually come in your help in some cases.
Setting: Youre on the go, and stumble across an open wireless network. The network gives you an IP address, but wont let you send TCP or UDP packets out to the rest of the internet, for instance to check your mail. What to do? By chance, you discover that the network will allow you to ping any computer on the rest of the internet. With ptunnel, you can utilize this feature to check your mail, or do other things that require TCP.
Main features:
- Tunnel TCP using ICMP echo request and reply packets
- Connections are reliable (lost packets are resent as necessary)
- Handles multiple connections
- Acceptable bandwidth (150 kb/s downstream and about 50 kb/s upstream are the currently measured maximas for one tunnel, but with tweaking this can be improved further)
- Authentication, to prevent just anyone from using your proxy

prtunnel is a program that can tunnel TCP/IP connections in a variety of ways, including through HTTP and SOCKS5 proxy servers. Some if its possible uses include:
- Tunneling TCP connections from client programs to a remote server through an HTTP or SOCKS5 proxy (useful if youre behind such a proxy and want to use a program that doesnt have native proxy support)
- Tunneling TCP connections from SOCKS-capable client programs through an HTTP or SOCKS5 proxy
- Tunneling TCP connections from an IPv4 client program to an IPv6 server and vice-versa
- Forwarding TCP connections
- Running as a simple SOCKS proxy server
prtunnel project was developed and used under Linux and BSD-based operating systems.
Enhancements:
- A bug that would cause malloc(0) to be called in some situations (which could cause problems on some systems) has been fixed.
- The server timeout, if specified, is now set before the proxy server successfully connects to the remote server, which will prevent the program from hanging if the proxy does not respond to the client.

utunnel is a tool that lets you tunnel all IP traffic (TCP, ICMP, etc.) over UDP. It also allows for the endpoints of these packets to be spoofed as other machines on your unswitched LAN (think wireless or hubs). This tool is simply a proof of concept and the actual uses are left to your choice.


In order to use udptunnel, libnet and libpcap are required. I havent tested with any versions other than:

libpcap >= 0.8.1
libnet >= 1.1.2.1

Install instructions can be found in the INSTALL file, but the eager can
get away with issuing the following commands:

./configure
make
make install

HTTPTunnel is a simple client/server application for creating an HTTP tunnel between two machines, optionally via a Web proxy.
This is a small application for tunnelling an arbitrary TCP socket connection over HTTP. It can be used, for example, to tunnel traffic out from behind a restrictive firewall that only allows outgoing HTTP web connections.
The basic idea is that you run an instance of the HTTP Tunnel application locally in client mode, that then connects out to another instance that you run at the remote end of the tunnel in server mode.
You then connect to the local client end of the tunnel with the application whose traffic you wish to tunnel, and all communications are then wrapped in HTTP. The tunnel may also go via a HTTP proxy, either explicitly or transparently.
Enhancements:
- This release includes some major bugfixes and improvements in the tunneling error detection and retransmission code.
- It also introduces support for building and running under Cygwin.

JSecureTunneling provides a Java SSH client for tunnels management.

SecureTunneling is a Java SSH client that is entirely oriented toward the management of SSH tunnels, offering the ability to establish secure and permanent tunnels to a remote SSH server transparently, just like a simple network connection.

The key features are: auto-reconnection, connection monitoring, connection triggers, tunneling changes on-the-fly, and profile management.

StdioTunnel project allows you to tunnel arbitrary TCP connections through any shell access connection.

If the connection provides a clear 8-bit data path and allows you to start programs, you can use it with StdioTunnel.

It tunnels TCP connections in much the same way SSH does, but is useful in particular cases where SSH port forwarding is disabled, and it does not require running or changing the configuration of any server processes on either side of the connection.

Once StdioTunnel handshakes, the connection you used to initiate it is no longer available. The local StdioTunnel process will ignore further input. The connection is shut down when you kill the StdioTunnel process at either end.

All that is required for StdioTunnel to make a connection is that the standard input and output of the remote side appear to be connected through an 8-bit clear channel to the standard input and output of the process started by the local side. ssh with the -e none option to turn off the escape character works quite nicely as the connecting process.

Please note that using ANY software, StdioTunnel included, to work-around firewall restrictions may make systems on either side of the firewall more vulnerable to any number of attacks. StdioTunnel may have bugs that make such vulnerabilities even worse. The user takes sole responsibility for any adverse consequences of using this software.

Very Strange Tunneling Tool (VSST) is a multi-protocol tunneling tool. It accepts input by TCP stream sockets and FIFOs, and can send data via TCP, POP3, and ICMP tunneling.

HOW TO COMPILE

Run the following command:

OS | COMMAND
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linux+bsd | make
solaris | make solaris[2]
other unix| try both :-)[1]

[1]: Give me root access to your box and I will port it. Im interested in porting vstt to Solaris x86, Solaris sparc, SGI IRIX, AIX, ...

[2]: Never tested since the hardware of my Solaris box is broken.

HOW TO INSTALL

Run make install