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Rinetd is a tool for redirecting Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connections on a Unix and Linux OS. Rinetd is a single-process server which handles any number of connections to the address/port pairs specified in the configuration file etc/rinetd.conf. Since rinetd runs as a single process using nonblocking I/O, it is able to redirect a large number of connections without putting much additional load to the machine.

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