Socket Pipe

Socket Pipe can forward your socket from one address to anoter without any configs. It supports both tcp and udp, you can simplely make a software net-bridge.

Install

npm install -g socket-pipe

Usage

Tcp socket forwarding

The following example shows how to map a remote address (ip=192.168.1.100 port=80) to a local address (ip=127.0.0.1 port=80) via tcp tunnel.

socket-pipe -l 127.0.0.1@80 -r 192.168.1.100@80 -t tcp

Udp socket forwarding

The following example shows how to map a remote address (ip=8.8.8.8 port=53) to a local address (ip=127.0.0.1 port=53) via udp tunnel.

socket-pipe -l 127.0.0.1@53 -r 8.8.8.8@53 -t udp

Tcp reverse tunnel

The following example shows how to map a server from LAN (ip=192.168.1.100 port=80) to internet (ip=123.123.123.123 port=80).

Client side (LAN)

socket-pipe -l 192.168.1.100@80 -r 123.123.123.123@10080 -t tclient

Server side (internet)

socket-pipe -l 123.123.123.123@10080 -r 123.123.123.123@80 -t tserver

Http reverse tunnel

The following example shows how to map multi http servers from LAN (ip=[192.168.1.100 - 192.168.1.102] port=80) to internet (ip=123.123.123.123 port=80).

Client side (LAN)

http1

socket-pipe -l 192.168.1.100@80 -r 123.123.123.123@10080 -t hclient -x git.dev.com -s git

http2

socket-pipe -l 192.168.1.101@80 -r 123.123.123.123@10080 -t hclient -x file.dev.com

http3

socket-pipe -l 192.168.1.102@80 -r 123.123.123.123@10080 -t hclient -s wiki

Server side (internet)

socket-pipe -l 123.123.123.123@10080 -r 123.123.123.123@80 -t hserver

There are two special params.

1. -x means socket-pipe will transform:
   1. The Host value in http request header.
   2. The host part of 'Location' value in http response header.
2. -s means specify a domain prefix. The server side will create a random prefix without specifying.

Now you can visit different backend http server in a LAN from a portal on internet.

For example if domain *.test.com is pointing to 123.123.123.123, the visits to http://git.test.com/ will be forwarded to http://192.168.1.100/ with host git.dev.com because of the domain prefix git.