Posted on 2021/01/22 | 4 minutes | 807 words | Stefano Garzarella
SOCAT is a CLI utility which enables the concatenation of two sockets together. It establishes two bidirectional byte streams and transfers data between them.
socat supports several address types (e.g. TCP, UDP, UNIX domain sockets, etc.) to construct the streams. The latest version 1.7.4 , released earlier this year [2021-01-04], supports also AF_VSOCK addresses: