#! /usr/bin/env bash # Copyright Gerhard Rieger and contributors (see file CHANGES) # Published under the GNU General Public License V.2, see file COPYING # Shell script to perform group communications, sometimes called brokering. # It starts a Socat instance that forks a child process for each # connected client; the clients communicate via IPv4 broadcast # Examples: # socat-broker.sh TCP-L:1234 # Now connect with an arbitrary number of clients like TCP::1234 # socat-broker.sh SSL-L:1234,cert=server.pem,cafile=clients.crt # Now connect with an arbitrary number of clients like SSL::1234,cafile=server.cert=clients.pem ECHO="echo -e" usage () { $ECHO "Usage: $0 " $ECHO " is a passive address like TCP4-L or SSL-L" $ECHO " :" $ECHO " -d* -S -t -T are passed to socat" $ECHO " -V prints the socat command before starting it" $ECHO "For example:" $ECHO " $0 \\" $ECHO " TCP4-L:1234" $ECHO "Then connect with clients to port 1234" $ECHO "Data sent by any client is forwarded to all other clients" } VERBOSE= QUIET= OPTS= while [ "$1" ]; do case "X$1" in X-h) usage; exit ;; X-V) VERBOSE=1 ;; X-q) QUIET=1; OPTS="-d0" ;; X-d*|X-l?*) OPTS="$OPTS $1" ;; X-b|X-S|X-t|X-T|X-l) OPT=$1; shift; OPTS="$OPTS $OPT $1" ;; X-) break ;; X-*) echo "Unknown option \"$1\"" >&2 usage >&2 exit 1 ;; *) break ;; esac shift done LISTENER="$1" if [ -z "$LISTENER" ]; then echo "$0: Missing parameter" >&2 usage >&2 exit 1 fi shopt -s nocasematch if ! [[ "$LISTENER" =~ .*,fork ]] || [[ "$LISTENER" =~ .*,fork, ]]; then LISTENER="$LISTENER,fork" fi case "$0" in */*) SOCAT=${0%/*}/socat ;; *) SOCAT=socat ;; esac PORT=$($SOCAT -d -d -T 0.000001 UDP4-RECV:0 /dev/null 2>&1 |grep bound |sed 's/.*:\([1-9][0-9]*\)$/\1/') if [ -z "$PORT" ]; then echo "$0: Failed to determine free UDP port" >&2 exit 1 fi BCADDR=127.255.255.255 if [ "$VERBOSE" ]; then echo -e "$SOCAT -lp socat-broker $OPTS \\ $LISTENER \ UDP4-DATAGRAM:$BCADDR:$PORT,bind=:$PORT,so-broadcast,so-reuseaddr" fi $SOCAT -lp socat-broker $OPTS \ "$LISTENER" \ "UDP4-DATAGRAM:$BCADDR:$PORT,bind=:$PORT,so-broadcast,so-reuseaddr"