June 14, 2019: socat-1.7.3.2-1.1.el7.x86_64.rpm - Removed: Provided by EPEL.
February 23, 2017: socat-1.7.3.2-1.1.{fc20,fc21,fc22,fc23,fc24,fc25,el6,el7}.{i686,x86_64}.rpm - Socat is a relay for bidirectional data transfer between two independent data channels.
Each of these data channels may be a file, pipe, device (serial line etc. or a pseudo terminal), a socket (UNIX, IP4, IP6 - raw, UDP, TCP), an
SSL socket, proxy CONNECT connection, a file descriptor (stdin etc.), the GNU line editor (readline), a program, or a combination of two of these.
These modes include generation of "listening" sockets, named pipes, and pseudo terminals.
Socat can be used, e.g., as TCP port forwarder (one-shot or daemon), as an external socksifier, for attacking weak firewalls, as a shell interface to UNIX
sockets, IP6 relay, for redirecting TCP oriented programs to a serial line, to logically connect serial lines on different computers, or to establish a
relatively secure environment (su and chroot) for running client or server shell scripts with network connections.
See the change log that is part of the RPM package for a list of changes since the last version (1.7.3.0).
August 5, 2016: socat-1.7.3.0-1.{fc20,fc21,fc22,fc23,fc24,el6,el7}.{i686,x86_64}.rpm - Socat is a relay for bidirectional data transfer between two independent data channels.
Each of these data channels may be a file, pipe, device (serial line etc. or a pseudo terminal), a socket (UNIX, IP4, IP6 - raw, UDP, TCP), an
SSL socket, proxy CONNECT connection, a file descriptor (stdin etc.), the GNU line editor (readline), a program, or a combination of two of these.
These modes include generation of "listening" sockets, named pipes, and pseudo terminals.
Socat can be used, e.g., as TCP port forwarder (one-shot or daemon), as an
external socksifier, for attacking weak firewalls, as a shell interface to UNIX
sockets, IP6 relay, for redirecting TCP oriented programs to a serial line, to
logically connect serial lines on different computers, or to establish a
relatively secure environment (su and chroot) for running client or server
shell scripts with network connections.
See the change log that is part of the RPM package for a list of changes.
November 17, 2010: socat - socat is a command line based utility that establishes two bidirectional byte streams and
transfers data between them.