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Ettercap vs socat

A side-by-side look at Ettercap and socat. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Ettercap

Ettercap

Security & Privacy

Ettercap is a free and open source network security tool for man-in-the-middle attacks on LAN. It can be used for network auditing, protocol analysis, sniffing passwords, detecting ARP spoofing, and more.

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socat

socat

Network & Admin

socat is a command line utility that establishes two bidirectional byte streams and transfers data between them. It can be used for various networking and connectivity tasks like creating TCP ports, SOCKS proxies, or UNIX sockets.

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