Socat
Socat
http://www.dest-unreach.org/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.
Licensing
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This license applies to an install script included with Socat. It is almost identical to the license listed on the Fedora Project Wiki as the 'Old Style (no advertising without permission)' MIT license, and reproduced below for convenience: Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the name of M.I.T. not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission. M.I.T. makes no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
Leaders and contributors
| Contact(s) | Role |
|---|---|
| Gerhard Rieger | Maintainer |
Resources and communication
| Audience | Resource type | URI |
|---|---|---|
| Debian (Ref) | https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/socat | |
| Bug Tracking,Developer,Support | mailto:socat@dest-unreach.org |
Software prerequisites
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