sower

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sower

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The sower is a cross-platform intelligent transparent proxy tool. It provide both socks5 proxy and DNS-based proxy. All these kinds of proxy support intelligent router.

If you already have another proxy solution, you can use it's socks5(h) service as a parent proxy to enjoy the sower's intelligent router.

Installation

To enjoy the sower, you need to deploy sower on both server-side(sowerd) and client-side(sower).

Sowerd

If you wanna use sower as secondary proxy to provide intelligent router, you can skip sowerd.

At the server-side, the sowerd runs just like a web server proxy. It will occupy two ports 80 / 443.

You can use your own certificate or the certificate automatically applied for by the sowerd from Let's Encrypt.

There are two ways to run the sowerd service:

1. run the shell command with root permission

   # sowerd -password XXX -fake_site 127.0.0.1:8080
   

2. install as a systemd service

   [Unit]
   Description=sower server service
   After=network.target
   
   [Service]
   Type=simple
   ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/sowerd
   Environment="FAKE_SITE=127.0.0.1:8080"
   Environment="PASSWORD=XXX"
   
   [Install]
   WantedBy=multi-user.target
   

Sower

A config file is required in sower client side. Here is an usable example in China.

Sower will take 4 port by default with root permission. They are: udp(53) / tcp(80) / tcp(443) / tcp(1080).

After do the next three step, you can enjoy the intelligent transparent proxy solution:

1. run the command line with root permission:

   # sower -f sower.hcl
   

2. changing your DNS server to 127.0.0.1 and

3. setting your proxy to socks5h://127.0.0.1:1080.

Architecture