VPN

Make your computer a box's way out to the internet: the sites a box visits see your home address, not the cloud's.

Needs: macOS or Linux, and a box (lnk up boxes) or any machine you reach over SSH.

lnk vpn exit aws-1 home   # aws-1's traffic can leave from here
lnk vpn list              # the exits this computer keeps, and for whom
lnk vpn exit aws-1 off    # stop

Make your computer a box's exit

lnk vpn exit aws-1 home
lnk vpn exit me@server home   # any machine you SSH to

The box gets a SOCKS5 proxy on its own 127.0.0.1:40780, and its connections leave from your computer. A program on the box has to use the proxy. The exit runs in the background over the SSH you already have, and your Mac stays awake while it's an exit.

For an agent on a box, lnk agent exit home uses the exit for you.

Stop

lnk vpn exit aws-1 off

The exit stops once nobody holds it: you, or an agent exiting from home on that box.

What to know

• It carries TCP only: web requests, APIs, Telegram.
• It needs your computer on and online; without it, the box has no way home.
• Nothing listens on your computer, and the proxy is on the box's loopback only. Anything running on the box can use your home address while the exit is up.

Every flag: lnk vpn --help.