See Also

• CryptCat

Documentation

• Man Page
  • Examples
• README file

Mini tutorials

• Securing traffic between two socat instances using SSL
• IP multicasting with socat
• Building TUN based virtual networks with socat
• socat-gender.txt contains a simple TCP gender changer example.
• Generic sockets with socat
• Tunneling the Unix sockets via SSH

Links

• http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/doc/socat.html

  # Silly - give me a readline interface and connect it to
  # python.  Give python a pty, setsid and make it a
  # controlling terminal (ctty).
  socat READLINE,history=$HOME/.socat_python_history EXEC:'python',pty,setsid,ctty
  

• Misc

  • Problem sending Bytes with pySerial and socat
  • HAProxy: Gathering Stats Using socat

Bag

Forwarding http from VirtualBox Host Only interface to localhost

sudo socat TCP6-LISTEN:80,reuseaddr,bind=192.168.56.1,fork TCP6:localhost:80

Tunneling the Unix sockets via SSH

From: Tunneling the Unix sockets via SSH

# Connect STDIO of one program to a unix socket.
socat STDIO UNIX-CONNECT:/home/services/vms/vnc-socket


# Forward local port to remote unix socket.
socat TCP-LISTEN:5500 EXEC:'ssh [email protected] "socat STDIO UNIX-CONNECT:/home/services/vms/vnc-socket"'
xtightvncviewer -encodings "copyrect tight hextile zlib corre rre raw" localhost:5500