Questions tagged [socat]
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Network shaping local proxy for website testing
I want to make a virtual network interface to TCP-proxy a website and have my browser see it through a slow network connection, in order to debug performance issues in the website itself.
So far I managed to set it up in the following way:
ip…

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Why is socat not working here? (4in6 for UDP traffic)
I have a TS3 server running on IPv6 only. I wanted to use a dualstack VPS as a 4in6 tunnel, but UDP traffic gets lost with this configuration:
socat UDP4-LISTEN:9987,fork UDP6:server@example.net:9987
TCP traffic works fine:
socat…

Seolh
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forward all traffic between two ports without iptables
I have read this:
Port forwarding on Linux without iptables?
I have a vps and I have ran lxc containers on it. I want to redirect all incoming traffic from one outside port to one port of a container (for example 190.23.43.54:80 to…

Amir Hossein Baghernezad
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Setting up a three way serial port from a single existing port
I currently have a device that has a serial port, and on boot this serial port is bound to ttyS1. There is a process on the device (that I have little control over) that takes control of this port so you can talk to it through a serial terminal.
I…

Tyler
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multiplexing a TCP connection through a dumb shell connection?
I am connecting to a VPN whose gateway is sufficiently misconfigured that basically the only useful thing I can do with it is to ssh to a specific Linux host set up for my usage inside the VPN, and then use that host as a terminal. (Neither scp nor…

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zabbix_agent + socat hanging with close_wait
I have the following setup: remote devices running active zabbix_agentd (version 2.0) using socat to tunnel through an HTTPS proxy.
On the server side: Apache with a proxy service allowing CONNECT to localhost:10051 (zabbix_proxy). The connection is…
user65677
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Dumping the contents of HTTP packets between two VPNs
Here's my setup:
Client ---> VPN 1 (my pc, same subnet of the client) --> VPN 2 (external VPN) --> Internet
Both VPNs are L2TP/IPSec and the first one is an Ubuntu server with Openswan.
I need to record the HTTP requests and responses of each…

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Using socat to exec php cli
There are multiple client programs that periodically connect to a port on my server and send a single line of text.
When a connection to the port is made I need to start a PHP CLI script that processes the data. There may be many of the remote…

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Redirect to port based on requested (sub)domain (1 IP, non-HTTP request)
Possible Duplicate:
How to use DNS to redirect domain to specific port on my server
So I've been trying to figure out how to redirect a subdomain to a specific port.
Let's assume the application will always request the default port and that…

levifig
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K8s Port Forwarding via kubectl and socat
My k8s pod is connecting to a certain https target. This target is not reachable from my local machine, so I wanted to use kubectl proxy + socat to make that target available on my local machine für local development.
The problem is that I even cant…

dontspeak
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Using socat forwarder over HTTP tunnel (CONNECT) over SSL/TLS
For context, i am using nginx's reverse proxy ngx_http_proxy_module to cache content from an upstream https server. For a specific project, i need nginx to pass through a corporate HTTP proxy (using the HTTP CONNECT method), and unfortunately this…

Florent Thiery
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Fork connections out from a single socat connection
I have an old legacy application I’m trying to get to work with our semi-modern network. This application sends log messages as HTTP requests (one log per request) but does so over a single TCP connection. If that TCP connection dies, the logs get…

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using putty and socat to run rust server behind firewalls
i want to run a publicly accessible Rust server on a windows machine behind some routers and firewalls. the idea is tunneling the local server ports to a public machine where they are accessable: rust server on windows behind firewalls <- putty…

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socat is missing commands for haproxy on ubuntu 20.04
I have installed haproxy 2.6.6, socat 1.7.4.1 and have a working load balancer for Exchange. I want to be able to turn off a node for maintenance and have unsuccessfully tried to use socat to do this.
In my haproxy.cfg global section I have:
stats…

02dag
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Socat udp client/server with truncated message
Using nodejs I can transmit udp packets with a payload of 50000 chars.
But I fail to do so with socat (Linux ubuntu 20.04 on both the client and server).
For this test I've been using a vpn connecting my home host to my work host.
I was kind of…