tcptunnel mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository

Befehle und Aliase

• tcptunnel

Projektgeschichte

The official homepage and ChangeLog date the first public release to 2000-08-15. Later entries show the portability-driven shape of the project: HP-UX and SunOS support in 2000, Windows support in 2004, renewed cleanup and fork-based concurrency in 2010, Cygwin fork support in 2013, and Mac OS X support in version 0.8.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The supplied package metadata shows Homebrew packaging, and the README explicitly thanks a Homebrew pull request for Mac OS X installation instructions. The official homepage also provided source and Windows binary downloads, so the tool was distributed both as a small upstream tarball and as a package-manager formula.

Wie es verwendet wird

The official documentation describes redirecting TCP-based protocols such as HTTP, IRC, NNTP, SSH, and SMTP. The CLI exposes local and remote port settings, remote host, bind and client address controls, buffer size, forked concurrency, logging, and stay-alive behavior.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

tcptunnel is the kind of package that remains useful because it is minimal: install it, bind a local port, and forward bytes. It matters in the package-nerd niche as a compact alternative when a full proxy, SSH tunnel setup, or larger networking toolkit would be unnecessary.

Zeitleiste

• 2000-08-15: tcptunnel 0.1 first public release.
• 2000-09-14: 0.1g added HP-UX and SunOS support.
• 2004-12-28: 0.2 added Windows support.
• 2010-09-21: Added fork-based concurrent client handling.
• 2013-10-27: 0.8 added Mac OS X support and a buffer-size option.

Related projects

• The official page frames tcptunnel around TCP-based protocols including HTTP, IRC, NNTP, SSH, and SMTP; Cygwin and MinGW appear as Windows build environments in the README.

Quellen

• https://github.com/vakuum/tcptunnel#readme
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vakuum/tcptunnel/master/ChangeLog
• https://vakuumverpackt.de/tcptunnel/
• input source_facts.package-manager