Ping Tunnel (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.
Ptunnel is not a feature-rich tool by any means, but it does what it advertises.
This is free and open source software.
Key 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.
Website: www.cs.uit.no/~daniels/PingTunnel
Support:
Developer: Daniel Stødle
License: BSD License
Related Software
| Network Tunnels | |
|---|---|
| frp | Fast reverse proxy |
| Pangolin | Tunneled mesh reverse proxy server with access control |
| iodine | Tunnel IPv4 data through a DNS server |
| wstunnel | Tunnel traffic over Websocket or HTTP2 |
| Chisel | Fast TCP/UDP tunnel |
| GO Simple Tunnel | Provides proxying, port forwarding, and reverse proxy capabilities |
| Tuntox | Forwards TCP connections over the Tox protocol |
| rustunnel | Secure tunnelling platform |
| 6tunnel | Tunnelling for applications that don't speak IPv6 |
| Gurren | SSH tunnel manager |
| VTun | Create virtual tunnels over TCP/IP networks |
| Ping Tunnel | Tunnel TCP connections to a remote host using ICMP echo request |
| isatapd | Creates and maintains an ISATAP tunnel |
| ClashT | Rule-based tunnel in Go |
Read our verdict in the software roundup.
 Explore our comprehensive directory of recommended free and open source software. Our carefully curated collection spans every major software category.This directory is part of our ongoing series of informative articles for Linux enthusiasts. It features hundreds of detailed reviews, along with open source alternatives to proprietary solutions from major corporations such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, IBM, Cisco, Oracle, and Autodesk. You’ll also find interesting projects to try, hardware coverage, free programming books and tutorials, and much more. Discovered a useful open source Linux program that we haven’t covered yet? Let us know by completing this form. |
Please read our Comment Policy before commenting.