[CentOS] netcat or netcat6 for Centos 6.3

Robert Moskowitz

rgm at htt-consult.com
Thu Mar 7 19:27:29 UTC 2013


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.





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