sdesc: "Bidirectional data transfer relay"
ldesc: "socat is a relay for bidirectional data transfer between two
independent data channels. Each of these data channels may be a file,
pipe, device (serial line etc. or a pseudo terminal), a socket (UNIX,
IP4, IP6 - raw, UDP, TCP), an SSL socket, proxy CONNECT connection, a
file descriptor (stdin etc.), the GNU line editor (readline), a
program, or a combination of two of these. These modes include
generation of 'listening' sockets, named pipes, and pseudo terminals.
socat can be used, e.g., as TCP port forwarder (one-shot or daemon),
as an external socksifier, for attacking weak firewalls, as a shell
interface to UNIX sockets, IP6 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."
category: Net Utils
requires: libreadline7 libwrap0 libopenssl100
curr: 1.7.2.1-1
test: 2.0.0b5-1