BSD Ports

net/unix2tcp 0.8.3 DragonFly

Connection forwarder that converts Unix sockets into TCP sockets

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
GPLv2
Categories
net
Package size
14.3 KiB, 36.5 KiB installed

Description

Aims:

  • To listen on a local UNIX socket and tunnel any incoming connections and traffic to a (remote) IP address/port

What it does:

  • Tunnels all traffic between a (remote) address/port and a local UNIX socket
  • Does NOT use fork() (single process model)
  • Does use O_NONBLOCK , should be no case of blocking

What it doesn't do (yet):

  • Doesn't limit number of concurrent connections

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 0.8.3, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
DragonFlynet/unix2tcp0.8.3 newestnone known-[email protected]-
FreeBSDnet/unix2tcp0.8.3 newestnone known-[email protected]2026-10-11
NetBSDwip/unix2tcp by name0.8.3 newestnone known-[email protected]2026-07-19
HardenedBSDnet/unix2tcp0.8.3 newestno data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDnet/unix2tcp0.8.3 newestno data-[email protected]-

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Install

Binary package:

pkg install unix2tcp

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/net/unix2tcp && make install clean

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.