socat 1.7.3.4 Open bidirectional communication channels from the command line
socat is a relay for bidirectional data transfer between two independent data channels---files, pipes, devices, sockets, etc. It can create "listening" sockets, named pipes, and pseudo terminals.
socat can be used, for instance, as TCP port forwarder, as a shell interface to UNIX sockets, IPv6 relay, for redirecting TCP oriented programs to a serial line, to logically connect serial lines on different computers, or to establish a relatively secure environment (su and chroot) for running client or server shell scripts with network connections.
- Website: http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/
- License: GPL 2
- Package source: networking.scm
- Patches: None
- Builds: x86_64-linux, i686-linux