Questions tagged [socat]
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What is needed to use kubernetes port forwarding through a proxy?
I have a kubernetes cluster that I can reach through an nginx proxy.
I can do kubectl get deployments -n kube-system without issue.
However, I'm trying to use helm. Helm is throwing an error:
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socat Resource temporarily unavailable
I am using socat as a bridge between some devices and running socat (a couple hundreds of instances) like this:
socat -d -d -d -x -d -lf "/var/log/some_log_file" TCP4-LISTEN:6126,fork,max-children=1,...
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use socat to provide password to bsign
I have many servers, where I deploy various binaries. For this purpose I use a script that packs them into archives, publishes to the local repository and then ssh-es to the target servers and ...
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'socat' not displaying incoming UDP packets, but Wireshark does
The link is an image of a Wireshark dump of an incoming 60-byte Ethernet frame which contains a UDP packet. The packet payload is the single word 'hello' (sorry, I don't have enough rep to paste the ...
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ping packet loss in wireguard UDP over TCP + UDP over socat tunnels
I have a wireguard tunnel mostly working between two Debian systems, but I had to workaround a ISP firewall (firewall X in the diagram below) that blocks everything inbound and prevents Server B from ...
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Simple socat UDP6 relay test setup not working
I'd like to use socat as a relay to let two players (both behind firewalls) of my game connect to each other. The game engine uses UDP.
Player A will host the game server, player B will join as client,...
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Encapsulate udp traffic info tcp with on-disk buffering
My ipfix flow receiver supports only udp (can't be replaced), which is not resistant to network failures and then I'm loosing flow data. To improve this I'm thinking about using socat, mkfifo between ...
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End of line after socat readbytes limit is reached
We wanted to use socat to make a process available that is line-based:
socat SYSTEM:"echo \$\$;sed -u /^%/s/foo/bar/" \
TCP-L:1234,fork,reuseaddr,readbytes=21,bind=localhost
This works but only ...
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socat multiple reads from pipe via SSH
I would like to read input on a named pipe on a remote server from my local machine. I have a script on the remote server that is triggered as a CRON job. So every now and then by script writes ...
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Socat interacting with specific host (reverse shell) from mutiple clients/connections
I have a threaded c/c++ application that gives a pty reverse shell installed on multiple linux clients they all connect back to same server/port
now I need to find a reliable method to interact with a ...
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with socat, given port on the remote (server) host is to be forwarded to the given host and port on the local side
Is it possible to use socat to achieve the following, without the need of using ssh?
> ssh -N -R 8080:localhost:1080 [email protected]
-R [bind_address:]port:host:hostport
Specifies that the ...
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How to measure network throughput with IPerf3 and multiple socat proxies
I have a particular device which acts as a "strange" TLS proxy and I want to measure the throughput of it with IPerf3.
The device under test is "Peter". It has an API to trigger ...
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iptables as proxy server for IoT devices similar to socat
I am able to forward incoming TCP traffic from IoT devices hitting a port towards another destination server using socat using this command
socat TCP-LISTEN:5050,reuseaddr,fork TCP:some-random-host-in-...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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SOCAT command for UDP relay using single port
I am using SOCAT linux command for relaying udp packets. Currently I am simulating using VMware.
I used sudo socat -T 10 UDP4-LISTEN:132,reuseaddr,fork UDP4:192.168.11.130:130,bind=192.168.11.131:133 ...
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haproxy as a ipv4 to ipv6
i have a small linux server on the internet on which i run socat.
socat UDP4-LISTEN:1194,fork UDP6-SENDTO:[****:****:****:****:*** *:****:****:****]:1194
Which I installed as a service. So far it ...
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UDP to Serial port
I look for some solution for connect serial/UART port by UDP connection to another PC.
Now I use socat and have connection , but with lost packages, and slow transfer.
Can I use netcat for this, maybe ...
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Socat device disappears
On Ubuntu 18.04, I'm using socat to connect to a USB device physically attached to another machine (and exposed via ser2net):
sudo socat PTY,link=/dev/zwavevera,group=root,mode=777 TCP:vera.home.lan:...
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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 ...
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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:[email protected]:9987
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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