socat
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List of Tools for Kali Linux 2013
DESCRIPTION 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.
More info: http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/doc/README
USAGE socat [options]
USAGE socat -V
USAGE socat -h[h[h]] | -?[?[?]]
OPTIONS http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/doc/socat.html#OPTIONS
EXAMPLE socat - TCP4:www.domain.org:80
EXAMPLE socat TCP4-LISTEN:www TCP4:www.domain.org:www
EXAMPLE socat -,raw,echo=0,escape=0x0f /dev/ttyS0,raw,echo=0,crnl
EXAMPLE http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/doc/socat.html#EXAMPLES