On 10/12/07, Alexey Vatchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi!
> I wrote a little utility and want to share it with you. It allows to
> redirect incoming connections to remote (and also local) host. For
> example, it listens for incoming TCP connections, accepts them and
> creates connection with remote host.
>
> But it works not only with TCP. One can easily redirect the following:
>  - TCP
>  - UDP
>  - UNIX socket (SOCK_STREAM)
>  - UNIX socket (SOCK_DGRAM)
>  - serial port (actually, tty device).
>
> And it doesn't matter what into what you redirect :)
>
> For example, you can give your chrooted web server access to MySQL not
> enabling networking in MySQL:
>
>         # netfwd unix stream /chroot/.../mysql.sock unix stream 
> /.../mysql.sock
>
> Any connects are welcome!
>
> --
> Alexey Vatchenko
> http://www.bsdua.org
> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>

If you want it to be widely used by OpenBSD users just make a port of
it and I bet it will get wider use.

BR
dunceor

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