3proxy/man/udptotcp.8
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tcptoudp, udptotcp: tunnels between TCP and UDP
Datagrams on a TCP connection, each with a two byte length in network
order in front of it, which is how udptunnel (the rfc1036 one) and
ProxyGuard (eduVPN) put them there, the framing alone or after a
handshake: udptunnel's 32 bytes, or ProxyGuard's HTTP Upgrade for
UoTLV/1 answered with 101 Switching Protocols.

tcptoudp takes the connections, a UDP socket of its own to the target
for each, the handshake a client speaks recognised by its first bytes
and answered; a parent the ACL gives is a SOCKS5 UDP relay, as for
udppm. udptotcp takes the datagrams, each client a session of the
service's with a TCP connection of its own, connected as the service's
loop sees it writable (dnspr asks a name server over TCP the same way);
-m sends udptunnel's handshake to the target, -m2 ProxyGuard's, -m0
(the default) none, so both ends of either tool are stood in for.

The service names take two places of the string table, the default
configuration path moving two later (stringtable[27]).

Built by the Makefiles and CMake, with the standalone binaries, and
installed by them; a case of the test suite speaks all three handshakes.
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.TH udptotcp "8" "November 2026" "3proxy" "Universal proxy server"
.SH NAME
.B udptotcp
\- UDP to TCP tunnel
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BR "udptotcp " [ -d ", " \fR[ -m \fR| \fR -m2 \fR| \fR -m0 \fR] ]
.IB \fR[ -l \fR[ \fR[ @ \fR] logfile \fR]]
.IB \fR[ -i internal_ip\fR]
.IB \fR[ -e external_ip\fR]
.I local_port remote_host remote_port
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B udptotcp
takes datagrams on
.I local_port
and sends them on a TCP connection to
.IR remote_host : remote_port ,
each with its length in front of it. This is the client side of udptunnel
(the rfc1036 one) and of ProxyGuard (eduVPN): each client is a session of
the service with a TCP connection of its own, and what comes back on the
connection is answered to that client as datagrams. A parent the ACL
gives is asked for a TCP connection to the target, not a UDP relay as
udppm's.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B -I
Inetd mode. Standalone service only.
.TP
.B -d
Daemonize. Detach service from console and run in the background.
.TP
.B -t
Be silenT. Do not log start/stop/accept error records.
.TP
.B -e
External address. IP address of the interface the proxy should initiate the
TCP connection from.
By default, the system will decide which address to use in accordance
with the routing table.
.TP
.B \-ni\fIPATH\fR
(Linux only) Switch to the network namespace identified by
.I PATH
before opening the listening socket. The current namespace is saved and restored
immediately after binding, so the TCP connection runs in the original namespace
unless
.B \-ne
is also given.
.TP
.B \-ne\fIPATH\fR
(Linux only) Switch to the network namespace identified by
.I PATH
after the listening socket has been bound (and after restoring from
.B \-ni
if applicable). Both options accept any namespace file path
(e.g.\& \fI/var/run/netns/myns\fR or \fI/proc/PID/ns/net\fR)
and require \fBCAP_SYS_ADMIN\fR.
.TP
.B -i
Internal address. IP address the proxy accepts datagrams to.
By default, datagrams to any interface are accepted. It\'s usually unsafe.
.TP
.B -l
Log. By default logging is to stdout. If
.I logfile
is specified logging is to file. Under Unix, if
.RI \' @ \'
precedes
.IR logfile ,
syslog is used for logging.
.TP
.B -m
udptunnel's handshake: the 32 bytes a client of udptunnel sends are sent
to the target before the datagrams.
.TP
.B -m2
ProxyGuard's handshake: an HTTP Upgrade for UoTLV/1 is asked of the
target, and the datagrams begin once the target has switched protocols.
.TP
.B -m0
No handshake: the datagrams are sent with none at all, which tcptoudp
and ProxyGuard's server also take. This is the default.
.TP
.B -S
Increase or decrease stack size. You may want to try something like -S8192 if you experience 3proxy
crashes.
.SH ARGUMENTS
.TP
.I local_port
- port udptotcp accepts datagrams on
.TP
.I remote_host
- IP address of the host the TCP connection is made to
.TP
.I remote_port
- remote port the TCP connection is made to
.SH CLIENTS
Any UDP-based application can be used as a client. Use
.I internal_ip
and
.I local_port
as the destination in the client application. The datagrams are carried
to
.IR remote_host : remote_port
and the answers come back.
.SH BUGS
Report all bugs to
.BR 3proxy@3proxy.org
.SH SEE ALSO
3proxy(8), 3proxy.cfg(5), tcptoudp(8), tcppm(8), udppm(8), syslogd(8),
.br
https://3proxy.org/
.SH AUTHORS
3proxy is designed by Vladimir Dubrovin <vlad@3proxy.org>