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Socat - Relay for bidirectional data transfer

Socat is a relay for bidirectional data transfer between two independent data channels. Data channels may be files, pipes, devices (terminal or modem, etc.), or sockets (Unix, IP4, IP6 - raw, UDP, TCP), etc. It provides forking, logging, and tracing, different modes for interprocess communication, and many more options.

It can be used, for example, as a TCP relay (one-shot or daemon), as an external socksifier, as a shell interface to Unix sockets, as an IP6 relay, as a netcat and rinetd replacement, for redirecting TCP-oriented programs like brutus to a serial line, or to establish a relatively secure environment (su and chroot) for running client or server shell scripts with network connections.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/
Source tarball http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/socat-1.0/socat-1.4.0.0.tar.gz
Version 1.4.0.0 (stable) released on 2004-06-22
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

Support contacts

Help List<socat@dest-unreach.org>
Developer List<socat@dest-unreach.org>
Bug List<socat@dest-unreach.org>

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Related information

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Source languagesC

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-03-06
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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