[CentOS] netcat or netcat6 for Centos 6.3
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Mar 7 19:41:29 UTC 2013
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>
> On 03/07/2013 01:57 PM, John Beranek wrote:
>> On 06/03/2013 20:34, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>> In my testing of HIP, there is reference to use 'nc6' for a simple TCP
>>> character echo server. No such animal in Centos, and after a bit of
>>> digging I find this refers to Netcat6 which seems to be a dead app? Is
>>> it available as an rpm somewhere for Centos? My searching is coming up
>>> empty. Or just about any service that I can start on one system and
>>> connect from another that would perform this simple echo test.
>> nc on CentOS 6 has -4 and -6 options for this.
>
> What rpm? I tried a 'yum whatprovides nc' and got nothing.
Is that a trick question? Try:
yum info nc
'yum search nc' would be the first thing to try, but you have to sort
through a lot of partial-match cruft.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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