Agreed. If netcat is the swiss-army knife of network tools, socat is the complete utility belt. I discovered socat because netcat simply wouldn't bend in all th

Agreed. If netcat is the swiss-army knife of network tools, socat is the complete utility belt. I discovered socat because netcat simply wouldn't bend in all the ways I needed it to. There is NOTHING ad-hoc network related that I haven't been able to perform with socat.