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nonot1
Asked: 2011-03-22 08:36:24 +0800 CST

Ubuntu: Compressed, but not encrypted, tunnel for TCP?

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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

ubuntu compression tcp tunneling stunnel

2 Answers

  1. 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/

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  2. You can turn off encryption in ssh by using the -c none option. I would do this then you can also turn it on later if needed without having to re-engineer your whole solution.

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