On 03/07/2013 02:41 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. > ARGH!!! <picture of me bashing my head on my desk> I only searched for nc6 (per the readme) then went a googling and found references to nc, but never went back to look for it :( too rushed. Got deadlines tomorrow and things are not working as they should. but then what else is new?