socat

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Multipurpose relay (SOcket CAT).

Examples (6)

Listen to a port, wait for an incoming connection and transfer data to STDIO

sudo socat - TCP-LISTEN:8080,fork

Listen on a port using SSL and print to `stdout`

sudo socat OPENSSL-LISTEN:4433,reuseaddr,cert=./cert.pem,cafile=./ca.cert.pem,key=./key.pem,verify=0 STDOUT

Create a connection to a host and port, transfer data in STDIO to connected host

sudo socat - TCP4:www.example.com:80

Forward incoming data of a local port to another host and port

sudo socat TCP-LISTEN:80,fork TCP4:www.example.com:80

Send data with multicast routing scheme

echo "Hello Multicast" | socat - UDP4-DATAGRAM:224.0.0.1:5000

Receive data from a multicast

socat - UDP4-RECVFROM:5000