How to redirect local port to another local port

November 17, 2020 · One min read

Hreniuc Cristian-Alexandru

Maintainer of this library

This can be done using socat:

socat TCP-LISTEN:5000,fork TCP:localhost:9000

This redirects all tcp connections from port 5000 to 9000. To run this command, the 5000 port shouldn't be already in use.