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| author | ijliao <ijliao@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-05-14 19:20:59 +0800 |
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| committer | ijliao <ijliao@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-05-14 19:20:59 +0800 |
| commit | e9135b745075034fdd5b99a1ac42dad48ae1bc80 (patch) | |
| tree | 30c9f151176eb255ecd6b24b2b4edc512e6d4c56 /net/socat/pkg-descr | |
| parent | ab09174896a487307b8bbd83a5fb22d495c52216 (diff) | |
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add socat 1.0.4.2
A relay for bidirectional data transfer between two indep. data channels
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diff --git a/net/socat/pkg-descr b/net/socat/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..5802fa0542cf --- /dev/null +++ b/net/socat/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +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, 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. + +WWW: http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/ |