Re: [9fans] netcat, the only stdin/stdout redirector to tcp/udp conns?

[Harri Haataja <harriha@mail.student.oulu.fi>]

On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 09:11:38PM +0200, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> I hope this will not be any flame... but I hardly can believe that in
> a normal linux/bsd distribution there isn't any tool for redirecting
> stdin/stdout to a (new) tcp/udp connection. I think that
> file-descriptor-fans will know something like that...

Not sure if it's any different than netcat for you, but there's socat.

Description: 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.

Upstream would appear to be http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/

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