socat - Multipurpose relay

socat - Multipurpose relay

What's new?
2007/06/20: An extension for RFC 2217 support written by Kenneth Kassing is provided in the contrib section.

Documentation
A new type of documentation is being introduced. The man page is probably no good entry point for first time socat users. Therefore, kind of mini tutorials are provided that each focus on a particular usage of socat; they present a working example with hints for troubleshooting and provide links to more detailled reference documentation.
Mini tutorials:
Securing traffic between two socat instances using SSL
IP multicasting with socat
Building TUN based virtual networks with socat
Classical documentation:
README file
socat man page in HTML format.
examples section of the man page
socat-gender.txt contains a simple TCP `gender changer´ example.