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Re:Poor man's VPN (pay for only what you need) by rkeene2 on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @10:00PM (#29916295)
That is a SOCKS5 proxy (as you said), however SSH can pass IP packets or Ethernet frames:

https://rkeene.org/viewer/tmp/ssh-ip-tunnel.txt.htm

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Re:Poor man's VPN (pay for only what you need) by anotherhue on Thursday January 13, 2022 @12:06AM (#29917079)
Doesn't this have all the usual TCP over TCP issues?
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Re:Poor man's VPN (pay for only what you need) by ajsnigrutin on Thursday January 13, 2022 @01:34AM (#29917505)
yep, fragmented packets and double confirmations, but if you're using it to order pills and read some US news, it doesn't really matter.
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