ptunnel

brew install ptunnel v0.72 BSD-3-Clause

Tunnel over ICMP

30-day installs · #12005

90-day · #12139

365-day · #10629

Caveats

Normally, ptunnel uses raw sockets and must be run as root (using sudo, for example).

Alternatively, you can try using the -u flag to start ptunnel in 'unprivileged' mode,
but this is not recommended. See https://www.cs.uit.no/~daniels/PingTunnel/ for details.

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