Sshuttle 1.1.1 not working on macOS Sonoma 14.1.1

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
macos, python
Domain
networking, operating-systems

Research direction

Start by reproducing the reported sshuttle 1.1.1 command on macOS Sonoma 14.1.1 and inspect the firewall setup path around the hanging pfctl -E command. Compare the behavior with issues #563, #706, #864, and #895. Done means the command completes firewall setup and establishes the requested connection without freezing.

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Description

Sorry if this is a duplicate issue, but I could not find another issue with the same problem. I am trying to use Sshuttle for the first time to connect to a Linux server from my macOS. With the command below:

sshuttle -v -r user@XXX.XX.XX.XX:YYYY -x XXX.XX.XXX.XX XXX.0.0.0/8 XXX.XXX.X.0/24

When running this command, after typing the password, the flow lines of logs are shown:

s: Running server on remote host with /usr/bin/python3 (version 3.10.6)
s: latency control setting = True
s: auto-nets:False
c : Connected to server.
fw: setting up.
fw: >> pfctl -s Interfaces -i lo -v
fw: >> pfctl -s all
fw: >> pfctl -a sshuttle6-12300 -f /dev/stdin
fw: >> pfctl -E
fw: >> pfctl -s Interfaces -i lo -v
fw: >> pfctl -s all
fw: >> pfctl -a sshuttle-12300 -f /dev/stdin
fw: >> pfctl -E

And it stays stopped in the last line (pfctl -E command), frozen, forever.
The pfctl -E command is used to enable the PF (Packet Filter) firewall on macOS
When I try to execute the command directly on my macOS terminal, the following lines are shown:

$pfctl -E
No ALTQ support in kernel
ALTQ related functions disabled
pf enabled
Token : 4235676552202453487

macOS Sonoma 14.1.1
shuttle --version 1.1.1

I checked the following issues, without any success:

https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle/issues/563
https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle/issues/706
https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle/issues/864
https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle/issues/895

I think this is a bug of sshuttle in macOS Sonoma. Can someone help me? Thanks

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