Messages in this thread | | | From | Dirk Gouders <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] netconsole.txt: "nc" needs "-p" to specify the listening port | Date | Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:24:53 +0200 |
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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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