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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.
Obtaining
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| Help List | <socat@dest-unreach.org> |
| Developer List | <socat@dest-unreach.org> |
| Bug List | <socat@dest-unreach.org> |
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| Interfaces | command line |
| Source languages | C |
| License verified by | Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-03-06 |
| Entry compiled by | Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> |
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