rathole
Lightweight and high-performance reverse proxy for NAT traversal
rathole is a secure, stable, and high-performance reverse proxy for NAT traversal written in Rust. It is a lightweight alternative to frp with a small binary and low memory use.
Key features
- NAT traversal tunneling
- Tiny memory footprint
- Noise protocol encryption
- High connection capacity
Strengths
- Released under the Apache-2.0 license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Mature project with 14k GitHub stars
- Written in Rust
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- rathole vs pgrok
- rathole vs tunnelmole
- rathole vs frp-panel
- rathole vs boringproxy
- rathole vs gTunnel
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