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Package: socat (1.6.0.1-1)

multipurpose relay for bidirectional data transfer

Socat (for SOcket CAT) establishes two bidirectional byte streams and transfers data between them. Data channels may be files, pipes, devices (terminal or modem, etc.), or sockets (Unix, IPv4, IPv6, raw, UDP, TCP, SSL). 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 IPv6 relay, as a netcat and rinetd replacement, to redirect TCP-oriented programs to a serial line, or to establish a relatively secure environment (su and chroot) for running client or server shell scripts inside network connections.

Tags: Implemented in: C, User Interface: Command Line, Networking: Client, Server, VPN or Tunneling, Network Protocol: IP, IPv6, SSL/TLS, TCP, Telnet, UDP, Role: Program, Scope: Utility, Purpose: Proxying, Transmission, Works with: Network Traffic

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  • dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.7-1) [alpha, ia64]
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  • dep: libreadline5 (>= 5.2)
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  • dep: libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8f-5)
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  • dep: libwrap0
    Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers library

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alpha 323.6 kB932 kB [list of files]
amd64 312.0 kB856 kB [list of files]
arm 296.0 kB764 kB [list of files]
armel 301.7 kB772 kB [list of files]
hppa 309.3 kB808 kB [list of files]
i386 300.7 kB792 kB [list of files]
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mips 318.8 kB948 kB [list of files]
mipsel 314.5 kB948 kB [list of files]
powerpc 313.1 kB832 kB [list of files]
s390 308.3 kB820 kB [list of files]
sparc 295.8 kB776 kB [list of files]