nurbles

[nurbles]

Thanks, I misunderstood the socat documentation and thought that I would (should) be able to specify which local address socat should listen on. When I removed the network on the listen side, it worked much better. Now my command looks like this:

sudo -b socat -ly -lpsocat-SL -d -d TCP4-LISTEN:5900,fork,max-children=1 TCP4:192.168.12.34:5900

The parameters at the beginning configure socat‘s logging and set the ID to use when logging (I actually have three instances of socat for three different systems, so I wanted to be able to differentiate between the log messages.) The max-children=1 setting tells socat to only allow ONE connection at a time while the fork allows socat to start listening for a new connection when the current connection terminates (correctly — I’ve fond VNC clients don’t always send a FIN to close the TCP connection when they’re closed, which messes socat up.)

Thanks again, sorry to be a bother and I hope this help someone else in the future!

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