How can I set up a tunnel for TCP connections between two hosts so that I can test a few different compression algorithms?
I'm aware of stunnel & SSH, but want to avoid the overhead of encryption. To avoid TCP-in-TCP flow issues, UDP as the transport is fine.
Basically, at the source and destination, I'd like to try piping the TCP data-stream through a few of the widely available compression programs. (gzip, bzip2, lzma, lzo, etc..)
How can this be done? (Using Ubuntu 10.10)
Thank you
Best Answer
I think netcat is perfect for this situation.
"Netcat is a featured networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP/IP protocol."
http://netcat.sourceforge.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netcat/