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# Socat - Reverse TCP Tunnel

We use it for port forwarding where all the TCP connections to 127.0.0.1:8080 will be redirected to port 1234.

```bash
socat TCP-LISTEN:1234,fork,reuseaddr tcp:127.0.0.1:8080 &
```