--text follows this line-- Name: socat Version: 1.0.3.0 (first stable) Title: Multipurpose data relay License: GPL Platforms: UN*X (currently Linux, FreeBSD, AIX, Solaris) Location: http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/socat-1.0/ md5sum: d4cd3cc96da5928630b286e4843adab4 README: socat is a relay for bidirectional data transfer between two independent data channels. Each of these data channels may be a file, pipe, device (terminal or modem etc.), socket (UNIX, IP4, IP6 - raw, UDP, TCP), a file descriptor (stdin etc), a program, or an arbitrary combination of two of these. socat can be used, e.g., as TCP relay (one-shot or daemon), as an external socksifier, for attacking weak firewalls, as a shell interface to UNIX sockets, IP6 relay, as 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. Many options are available to refine socats behaviour: terminal parameters, open() options, file permissions, file and process owners, basic socket options like bind address, advanced socket options like IP source routing, linger, TTL, TOS (type of service), or TCP performance tuning. More capabilities, like daemon mode with forking, client address check, "tail -f" mode, some stream data processing (line terminator conversion), choosing sockets, pipes, or ptys for interprocess communication, debug and trace options, logging to syslog, stderr or file, and last but not least precise error messages make it a versatile tool for many different purposes. In fact, many of these features already exist in spezialized tools; yet, I know of no other tool that provides such a generic, flexible, simple and almost comprehensive (UNIX) byte stream connector. This program is distributed under the GNU General Public License; please see the file COPYING. Except for install-sh, which is copyright MIT, with its own license For questions, ideas, bug reports etc. please contact socat@dest-unreach.org For socat source distribution, bug fixes, and latest news see http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/ Regards Gerhard Rieger
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