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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH] netconsole.txt: "nc" needs "-p" to specify the listening port
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Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Dirk Gouders
> <gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de> wrote:
>> Hi Jesse,
>>
>> I would like to ask you to check if the documentation of "nc" in
>> netconsole.txt is still correct. I tried two different netcat packages
>> and both require "-p" to specify the listening port. I am wondering if
>> that changed after the use of "nc" has been documented.
>
> On Fedora 16, `nc -u -l <port number>` works fine.

Thanks for checking that.

If the information I found is correct, Fedora uses OpenBSD's nc
codebase. The two netcat packages I tested on a Gentoo system differ in
requiring the -p switch for the port specification.

Dirk


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