Identifying Ingress and Egress Rules 1.2 Guided Exercise - socat issue

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Step 12:

At the debian@debian prompt, type sudo socat TCP-LISTEN:8888,reuseaddr,fork - and press Enter.

Entering this command results in the following error:

socat[722] E exactly 2 addresses required (there are 1); use option “-h” for help

I’ve gone though the help section but due to not having any previous guide on socat and no details as to what this line actually does, I am stuck.

Any help will be appreciated.

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I just checked, and the command works as expected:

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There is a text file on the lab server desktop (commands) that has this command written for you. Try copy and pasting it into Linux-A.

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Hi Joseph, thanks for the reply! I opened the text file and immediately realized my mistake. I was not entering the “-” at the end of the command! All good now.

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