2010 September 27 -
An article from Anton Borisov with success in using iTunnel to connect an iPod Touch on a MIPS netbook.
http://linuxgazette.net/177/borisov.html
2010 September 23 -
Amanda Lyn has kindly provided a Belorussian translation of this iTunnel page, linked here:
http://www.fatcow.com/edu/itunnel-be/
2009 November 01 -
IMPORTANT! For people who are still using iTunnel, you should consider moving to
the usbmuxd project, which now contains functionality which replaces iTunnel.
Below is an excerpt from the email Martin S. sent me.
Just wanted you to take the note that the software components around libiphone have quite evolved and iTunnel functionality has been included since. Our usbmuxd daemon implementation [1], with equivalents on Linux and Mac OS X, bundles a tool named "iproxy" which allows TCP tunneling like iTunnel, however is more advanced protocol-wise. This allows multiple connections, multiple devices at the same time, is available for multiple distributions [2] and works (if compiled) on Win/Mac/Linux asides from a bunch a other new features (support for new usbmux protocol etc.). [1] http://marcansoft.com/blog/iphonelinux/usbmuxd/ [2] http://matt.colyer.name/projects/iphone-linux/index.php?title=Main_Page
I hope all of you are able to migrate to the new iproxy program, and experience even better and faster tethering! :)
2009 October 11 -
development halted for a while
Hi Everybody. First, I want to thank all of the people who have found this
little tool to be useful. I originally wrote this just for my own use, and
it's amazingly wonderful to find that others are finding it useful too.
Recently, my trusty Thinkpad died a horrible death, and as a result I was
forced to buy a new machine. After two weeks of torturous self-debate, I
decided to take the dive and get a Mac. I intend to dual boot the machine,
using both OSX as well as Linux on it. However, as I've been busy with school
recently, I probably won't get around to setting up the dual-boot until Christmas.
So, for the time being, work on iTunnel will be halted for a while since it doesn't
work under OSX. Hopefully I get get my act together again soon near the holiday
season.
2009 September 1 -
iTunnel connection problem
iTunnel is still suffering from connection drop problems when transferring
large amounts of data over the USB link. I have not had time to investigate
this, but it is on my todo list of things to work out.
2009 July 9 - scp problem
I
have upgraded my iPhone 1st Gen and 3G to Firmware 3.0, and iTunnel
appears to be working in a limited capacity. SCP'ing files from
iPhone to PC seems to work okay, but SCP'ing from PC to iPhone is
giving bad packet length errors. I'm investigating this at the
moment.
iTunnel is a simple Linux command line program which provides SSH tunnelling over the USB cable to a jailbroken iPhone. I wrote this little tool because I got tired of having to SSH into my iPhone over the WiFi link. SSH proxy, ssh link, and scp all work great.
The current and latest version of iTunnel only supports one client SSH connection at a time. This makes the code much simpler to work with. However, you can still have multiple SSH sessions going into the iPhone by using SSH's channels to multiplex over the one connection.
Much of the iPhone connection code for this project is taken from iFuse project. I didn't make this program link dynamically to the libiphone library because I needed a couple of changes and didn't want to F'-up what they are working on.
The code here is neither pretty nor efficient. :( But it kind of works. Updates come as I fix stuff or make enhancements to my own liking. Feel free to email me for bugs or feature requests. My apologies ahead of time for not replying right away (or at all). jingsu at cs toronto.
version 0.0.9 , source+binary - changes:
Depending on your system's settings, you may have to run itunnel as root user. The port parameter is optional, and defaults to 3023.
To stop the tunnel, close all client connections and press "CTRL-C". The tunnel should clean up and quit.
First, run the tunnel. Next, open an SSH connection by calling ssh on the localhost at the itunnel server port. You can (should) run this as your regular user account. We also give the SOCKS proxy flag and specify the SOCKS port.
ssh -D 9000 -p 3023 127.0.0.1
9000 represents the SOCKS port, and you can change that to whatever
you want. 3023 is the default listening port for iTunnel, and you can
change that to whatever you want as well, as long as you also change
it as a command-line argument when you launch itunnel.
Edit your firefox network connection preferences with:
SOCKS proxy: 127.0.0.1 port: 9000
remember to leave all the other proxy options EMPTY.
Finally, you need to make Firefox send DNS queries through the proxy.
In about:config, set: network.proxy.socks_remote_dns=true.
done!
Host myphone
HostName 127.0.0.1
Port 3023
User mobile
ControlMaster auto
ControlPath /tmp/master-%r@%h:%p
ServerAliveInterval 300
UserKnownHostsFile ~/.ssh/myphone_known_hosts
RemoteForward 2202 localhost:22
Host labphone
HostName 127.0.0.1
Port 3023
User mobile
ControlMaster auto
ControlPath /tmp/master-%r@%h:%p
ServerAliveInterval 300
UserKnownHostsFile ~/.ssh/labphone_known_hosts
Here I have two entries for the two iPhones that I work with. One is
my personal phone (myphone) and the other is my work phone which I do
some development and experiments on (labphone). Because both of them
instruct SSH to connect to localhost at port 3023, SSH can give
warnings about differing host keys. The UserKnownHostsFile instructs
SSH to save the known host keys to a different file for these two
names, so that I don't get that error. Just as long as I remember to
call the right name depending on which device I hook up.
The above config also illustrates how to set up the channel tunneling for allowing multiple connections (Thanks to Lance Fetters for pointing this out to me). With this turned on you can call as many SSH connections as you want, and they'll all automatically multiplex over the one connection.
Finally, I specified a remote forward in the myphone config, which is helpful on occassion if you want to scp a file from the host from within the phone.
After the primary SSH connection terminates, the tunnel fails to fully close and reset.
After hitting CTRL-C, the tunnel fails to terminate
After closing the tunnel, disconnecting the USB cable causes the iPhone to reboot
TODO: