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Forwarding SNMP ports over SSH

I access my work network through a VPN and have access to every host in there through SSH. Currently I need to access around 3000 hosts via SNMP, but corporate sec policies restrict SNMP access ...
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Windows/Linux socat to share a serial device over IP

I have a scenario where I demonstrated to my group @ work how to share a very expensive USB patient simulator plugged into a Raspberry Pi (Debian) using socat. The group wants to be able to have an ...
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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 ...
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How to send SSL traffic through an HTTP proxy using socat?

From the man page, socat allows me to open a TCP tunnel to the SSL target using the proxy option. Unfortunately, that is only half of the solution. Further research shows that socat2 addresses this ...
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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 ...
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Socat to share a serial link between multiple processes

I have a scenario where multiple processes on the same box want to communicate with a serial device. Process A needs two-way communications with the serial port, and Process B only needs to be able ...
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creating secure multicast with socat

How we can create secure tunnels multicast with socat? Assume we have a list of ip address, CIDR network addresses that we want to create secure tunnel to them. I found this socat STDIO ...
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Access D-Bus remotely using socat

Description: I'd like to access a D-Bus system service from another machine, knowing only machine's IP address and the service to connect to. What I have recently found is Gabriel (D-Bus over SSH). ...
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Resolving HAProxy BADREQs using socat

I'm trying to figure out why i'm getting BADREQs from time to time, by using "show errors" in socat. The problem is that it only shows the last error. I want to be able to see all of them ( like using ...
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How do i use socat as a proxy server?

I'd like my .NET app to use a proxy which i know how to do except .net doesnt support sock4a/sock5. I know how to setup my app but How do i setup socat to at as a TCP proxy on part 1234 and use the ...
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Forwarding serial port over network and back to serial char device on remote host (socat?)

I'm working with a linux application which needs to talk with a remotely-located serial (rs-232) device. I've worked out how to use socat on the remote end to send the device's serial data over an IP ...
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Redirect to port based on requested (sub)domain (1 IP, non-HTTP request) [duplicate]

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 ...
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Replicate mysql server with networking disabled

I like having network disabled on mysql, but now I need to replicate one table across two servers. That is, the table will be updated on one server and then I need a copy of that table to be ...
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Forwarding linux terminal from serial port to TCP with socat

I'm working on embedded ARM platform, Slackware. I'm using G24 Java modem which is configured to forward data between ports /dev/ttyS1 and /dev/ttyACM0, so anything that goes onto any of these ports ...
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socat: Show incoming connections

I am slightly going mad. Even if I call socat like this: socat -vvvv tcp4-listen:9000 tcp4-listen:9001 it works perfectly, but doesn't inform me about incoming TCP connections! Is there an ...
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Need help in Haproxy socat for cacti

am using the haproxy socat to get the sessions data to plot it in cacti, /var/run/socket-haproxy is owned by www-data (the user which cacti uses) but when I try to execute this command as www-data am ...
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echo server with netcat or socat

I want a UDP echo server to get packets, and reply exactly what it has received. How can I simply do this using netcat or socat? It should stay alive forever and handle packets coming from several ...
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socat connect-connect “proxy” two inbound TCP connections to expose a firewalled service?

I'm struggling a bit trying to see how to use socat (or a similar TCP port redirector) to expose a firewalled service on a PC. Here's the scenario: I have a server PC which will be acting as a ...
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What's the difference between socat and netcat?

I understand that socat is described as a "more advanced" version of netcat, but what is the actual difference? Would it be correct to say that everything you can do in netcat you can also do in ...
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Can socat be used to forward an ssh-agent socket into a chroot?

I'm building custom Debian environments on a remote server, which I connect to over SSH. This involves building a debootstrap environment, then chrooting into it to run a custom installer. As part of ...
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Is it possible to make a web browser proxy tunnel with Netcat/Socat?

Concerning the Netcat/Socat utility . From the man page, it seems like it is possible to create a secure proxy using netcat by which I could point my web browser to like a proxy server , that could ...
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Forward local port or socket file to remote socket file

Quick question - I run two linux boxes, one my own desktop and the other my VPS. For security reasons on the VPS end I opted for socket connections to MySQL (/var/run/mysqld/mysql.sock). I know I can ...