Change your IP without VPN

In my daily life as a developer, i sometimes want to use a different IP to test some access etc. Using a free online proxy is mostly annoying and slow. A VPN is often overkill and actually i do not have any.

For this purpose i like to recommend sshuttle.

If your ssh command would be: ssh example@12.34.65.78
Your sshuttle command is: sshuttle --dns -r example@12.34.65.78 0/0

After you run the sshuttle command check your ip on WhatIsMyIp

The best practice is to store your ssh login in the ssh config. The config alias can be used with sshuttle.

# ~/.ssh/config
Host eg
  HostName 12.34.65.78
  Port 2274
  User test
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/test-id_rsa

Then simply use: sshuttle --dns -r eg 0/0