3 `ss-local` provides SOCKS5 proxy.
6 --------> tcp:udp:local_address:local_port ----> ss server -------> dest
8 `ss-redir`. The REDIRECT and TPROXY part are to be provided by `ss-rules` script. REDIRECT only works for tcp traffic (see also darkk/redsocks). TPROXY is used to proxy udp messages, but it's only available in the PREROUTING chain and as such cannot proxy local out traffic.
11 ---------> REDIRECT ------> tcp:local_address:local_port ----> ss server -----> original dest
14 ---------> TPROXY -------> udp:local_address:local_port -----> ss server -----> original dest
16 `ss-tunnel` provides ssh `-L` local-forwarding-like tunnel. Typically it's used to tunnel DNS traffic to the remote.
19 ---------> tcp|udp:local_address:local_port ------> ss server -------> tunnel_address
21 `ss-server`, the "ss server" in the above diagram
25 Option names are the same as those used in json config files. Check `validate_xxx` func definition of the [service script](files/shadowsocks-libev.init) and shadowsocks-libev's own documentation for supported options and expected value types. A [sample config file](files/shadowsocks-libev.config) is also provided for reference.
27 Every section have a `disabled` option to temporarily turn off the component instance or component instances referring to it.
29 Section type `server` is for definition of remote shadowsocks servers. They will be referred to from other component sections and as such should be named (as compared to anonymous section).
31 Section type `ss_local`, `ss_redir`, `ss_tunnel` are for specification of shadowsocks-libev components. They share mostly a common set of options like `local_port`, `verbose`, `fast_open`, `timeout`, etc.
33 We can have multiple instances of component and `server` sections. The relationship between them is many-to-one. This will have the following implications
35 - It's possible to have both `ss_local` and `ss_redir` referring to the same `server` definition
36 - It's possible to have multiple instances of `ss_redir` listening on the same address:port with `reuse_port` enabled referring to the same or different `server` sections
38 `ss_rules` section is for configuring the behaviour of `ss-rules` script. There can only exist at most one such section with the name also being `ss_rules`
40 redir_tcp name of ss_redir section with mode tcp_only or tcp_and_udp
41 redir_udp name of ss_redir section with mode udp_only or tcp_and_udp
42 ifnames only apply rules on packets from these ifnames
44 --- for incoming packets having source address in
46 src_ips_bypass will bypass the redir chain
47 src_ips_forward will always go through the redir chain
48 src_ips_checkdst will continue to have their destination addresses checked
50 --- otherwise, the default action can be specified with
52 src_default bypass, forward, [checkdst]
54 --- if the previous check result is checkdst,
55 --- then packets having destination address in
58 dst_ips_bypass will bypass the redir chain
60 dst_ips_forward will go through the redir chain
62 --- otherwise, the default action can be specified with
64 dst_default [bypass], forward
66 --- for local out tcp packets, the default action can be specified with
68 local_default [bypass], forward, checkdst
70 Bool option `dst_forward_recentrst` requires iptables/netfilter `recent` match module (`opkg install iptables-mod-conntrack-extra`). When enabled, `ss-rules` will setup iptables rules to forward through `ss-redir` those packets whose destination have recently sent to us multiple tcp-rst.
72 ss-rules uses kernel ipset mechanism for storing addresses/networks. Those ipsets are also part of the API and can be populated by other programs, e.g. dnsmasq with builtin ipset support. For more details please read output of `ss-rules --help`
74 Note also that `src_ips_xx` and `dst_ips_xx` actually also accepts cidr network representation. Option names are retained in its current form for backward compatibility coniderations
78 Useful paths and commands for debugging
80 # check current running status
81 ubus call service list '{"name": "shadowsocks-libev"}'
82 ubus call service list '{"name": "shadowsocks-libev", "verbose": true}'
84 # dump validate definition
85 ubus call service validate '{"package": "shadowsocks-libev"}'
86 ubus call service validate '{"package": "shadowsocks-libev"}' \
87 | jsonfilter -e '$["shadowsocks-libev"]["ss_tunnel"]'
90 ls -l /var/etc/shadowsocks-libev/
92 # set uci config option verbose to 1, restart the service and follow the log
95 ss-redir needs to open a new socket and setsockopt IP_TRANSPARENT when sending udp reply to client. This requires `CAP_NET_ADMIN` and as such the process cannot run as `nobody`
97 ss-local, ss-redir, etc. supports specifying an array of remote ss server, but supporting this in uci seems to be overkill. The workaround can be defining multiple `server` sections and multiple `ss-redir` instances with `reuse_port` enabled