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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com