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socat

socat is a relay for bidirectional data transfer between two independent data channels.

socat Alternatives

The best socat alternatives based on verified products, community votes, reviews and other factors.
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    Do you need to map a specific TCP or UDP port on your machine to another port on another machine?

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    Netcat is a featured networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections...

    Open Source

  3. Auto arrange all your app windows, whether on one screen or many with a single click!

    Try for free freemium $39.99 / Annually (One PC, One Year)

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    Free open source tool to perform TCP based session relay

  5. 22

    Simple Port Forwarding works with WebPages and not directly with your router.

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    Portfwd, Port Forwarding Daemon, stands for port forwarding daemon.

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    Packet Sender can send and receive UDP, TCP, and SSL on the ports of your choosing.

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    TheCodingMonkeys, authors of software like SubEthaEdit.

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    pwncat - netcat on steroids with Firewall, IDS/IPS evasion, bind and reverse shell, self-injecting shell and port forwarding magic - and its fully scriptable with Python (PSE)

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    tcpdump is a common packet analyzer that runs under the command line.

    Open Source

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    Ettercap is a suite for man in the middle attacks on LAN.

  12. This tool is created with the primary intention of making it easy to the end user to set forwarding rules in his router....

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    Reliable TCP and UDP port forwarding for Windows.

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    SmartSniff is a packet sniffer that capture TCP/IP packets and display them as sequence of conversations between clients and servers.

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