Configuring and Optimizing Shadowsocks Rust

Fri, 06 May 2022 16:10:22 +0000

During the recent holiday, I reorganized the home network with the goal of streaming 4K content without buffering. Since I was rebuilding the server anyway, I decided to migrate from the old setup to the new shadowsocks-rust implementation.

System Update

`1`	`sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade`

Installing and Configuring SS

Option 1: Build from Source via Cargo

# Install Rust toolchain
curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh

# Configure Cargo environment (add to .profile / .bash_profile)
# CARGO_HOME sets the installation path
# target-cpu=native lets rustc optimize for the current CPU
CARGO_HOME=/root/cargo
RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=native"
source .profile

# Install build dependencies
sudo apt install build-essential

# Install shadowsocks-rust
cargo install shadowsocks-rust

Option 2: Download Prebuilt Binary

wget https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-rust/releases/download/v1.14.3/shadowsocks-v1.14.3.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz
tar -xf shadowsocks-v1.14.3.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz
cp ssserver /usr/local/bin
chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/ssserver

Configuration

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mkdir /etc/shadowsocks
vi /etc/shadowsocks/config.json

{
    "server": "::",
    "server_port": 8888,
    "method": "aes-256-gcm",
    "password": "pw"
}

Test the server:

Shadowsocks Setup and Optimization

Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:29:27 +0000

Network instability at the office was affecting work, so I set up a Shadowsocks server on my VPS for source code pulls. The steps below work on most Linux distributions and have been tested on Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04.

2024 Update: The Python version of shadowsocks used in this guide is no longer maintained. The actively maintained implementation is shadowsocks-rust, which offers better performance and support for modern encryption protocols. For a fresh setup, refer to the shadowsocks-rust documentation. The original Python-based steps are preserved below for reference.