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Sower is a cross-platform intelligent transparent proxy tool. It provides both socks5 proxy and DNS-based proxy. All these kinds of proxies support intelligent routing.
If you already have another proxy solution, you can use its socks5(h) service as a parent proxy to enjoy sower's intelligent routing.
To enjoy sower, you need to deploy sower on both server-side(sowerd) and client-side(sower).
If you want to use sower as a secondary proxy to provide intelligent routing, you can skip sowerd.
On the server-side, sowerd runs just like a web server proxy. It will bind two ports 80 / 443.
You can use your own certificate or the certificate automatically applied for by sowerd from Let's Encrypt.
There are two ways to run the sowerd service:
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Run the command with root permission
# sowerd -password XXX -fake_site 127.0.0.1:8080 -
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
A config file is required on the sower client side. Here is a usable example in China.
Sower will bind 4 ports by default with root permission. They are: udp(53) / tcp(80) / tcp(443) / tcp(1080).
After doing the next three steps, you can enjoy the intelligent transparent proxy solution:
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Run the command with root permission:
# sower -f sower.hcl -
Change your DNS server to
127.0.0.1. -
Set your proxy to
socks5h://127.0.0.1:1080.
