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jpillora / chisel

A fast TCP/UDP tunnel over HTTP
MIT License
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Questions on IP address #378

Open ceewanna opened 2 years ago

ceewanna commented 2 years ago

I am new to this. I have the following questions. 1) Is it possible to set up chisel server without fixed IP? 2) Can the server reside in one of the client machines? Does it have to be a separate machine?

Servostar commented 1 year ago

Not sure if your question is still relevant to you but here is my take:

  1. Is it possible to set up chisel server without fixed IP?

Sure it it. The rather important question is how does one reach the server machine reliably? And one answer might be to setup dynamic DNS to provide access to the server via DuckDNS or other provider. Another solution might be to proxy the traffic from a different machine (with a static IP) to your server via a VPN or what not.

  1. Can the server reside in one of the client machines? Does it have to be a separate machine?

Sure thing. The server doesn't care whether there is a chisel client on the same machine or not. They do not use the same port or share important resources.