Reverse Proxies, Ingress

Recipe	Crates	Categories
`rathole`
`ngrok`
`nginx`	nginx proxy manager⮳
`pingora`

`rathole`

Rathole⮳ is a lightweight and high-performance reverse proxy for NAT traversal, written in Rust. rathole⮳ is similar to tools like frp and ngrok⮳.

NAT (Network Address Translation) can make it challenging to expose services on devices behind a NAT to the internet. Rathole helps to overcome this by allowing these services to be accessible via a server with a public IP.

Configuration of a service is split into the client side and the server side, and a token is mandatory.

Server Setup: On a server with a public IP, create a server.toml file with the necessary configurations.

# server.toml
[server]
bind_addr = "0.0.0.0:2333" # `2333` specifies the port that rathole listens for clients

[server.services.my_nas_ssh]
token = "use_a_secret_that_only_you_know" # Token that is used to authenticate the client for the service. Change to an arbitrary value.
bind_addr = "0.0.0.0:5202" # `5202` specifies the port that exposes `my_nas_ssh` to the Internet

Run:

./rathole server.toml

Client Setup: On the device behind NAT, create a client.[toml][p-toml] file to connect to the server.

# client.toml
[client]
remote_addr = "myserver.com:2333" # The address of the server. The port must be the same with the port in `server.bind_addr`

[client.services.my_nas_ssh]
token = "use_a_secret_that_only_you_know" # Must be the same with the server to pass the validation
local_addr = "127.0.0.1:22" # The address of the service that needs to be forwarded

./rathole client.toml

rathole⮳ can automatically determine to run in the server mode or the client mode, according to the content of the configuration file, if only one of [server] and [client] block is present.

`ngrok`

ngrok⮳ is a simplified API-first ingress-as-a-service that adds connectivity, security, and observability to your apps. ngrok-rust is the native and idiomatic crate for adding a public internet address with secure ingress traffic directly into your Rust apps.