socat Alternatives
socat is described as 'relay for bidirectional data transfer between two independent data channels. Each of these data channels may be a file, pipe, device (serial line etc'. There are five alternatives to socat for Linux, Mac, Windows, Chrome OS and BSD. The best alternative is netcat, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like socat are pwncat (Free, Open Source), Port Map (Free, Open Source), Plink (Free, Open Source) and NetCrypt (Free).
- Netcat is a featured networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP/IP protocol. View 22 alternatives to netcat
- 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). View 3 alternatives to pwncat
- Did you ever feel the urge to map your networking ports using your Airport Basestation or a UPNP router? View 8 alternatives to Port Map
- part of the Putty suite, plink is a command-line tool similar to ssh, mainly used for automating processes. It supports ssh, telnet, rlogin, raw, and serial connections. My limited tests indicate it runs better on Windows than on Linux. YMMV. View 1 alternatives to Plink
- NetCrypt is a small Open Source command line file-transfer utility providing authentication, confidentiality and integrity validation while still maintaining top-notch performance... View 4 alternatives to NetCrypt