UNIX Sockets 2 TCP forwarder
- Description This is a small program to redirect all connections and traffic from a UNIX socket to a (remote) TCP/IP address.
- Installation ./configure make make install (this might require root privileges)
- Examples
3.1 Transparently forwarding of local MySQL connections to remote locations
unix2tcp /tmp/mysql.sock <remotesqlip> <remotesqlport> Also you will need to have on remoteip:remoteport another portforwarder (this time a classic TCP to TCP one) to forward from <remotesqlport> to 127.0.0.1:3306 so that the grant tables dont need to be changed. This example can work for any SQL server that uses UNIX sockets and doesnt change protocol in UNIX sockets than TCP ones.
3.2 Forwarding of X connections
Althought there are lots of features that X clients cannot do without local X server, there are some cases (as pointed out by a user) where you have binary distributed applications that want to talk only to local X server (even that they dont require any local-only X features). So using something like:
unix2tcp /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 <remoteXserver> 6000
can trick the local X apllications to think they talk to a local X server (you will also need a proper xhost command).
3.3 Any other usefull examples please send me mail to include them here
4. Thanks to (in order of apparition :) ):
- Vlad Galu
- Szymon Roczniak
- Philipp
- David Hill
- the FINK project (fink.sf.net) 5. Bugs, comments, feedback welcomed: dizzy@roedu.net