[CentOS] netcat or netcat6 for Centos 6.3

Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
> 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?

Oh, come on, none of *us* have these problems, or others, like, say, your
manager's boss, standing there as you try to get the new guy set up with
xming and putty-cac, not putty, and they've got a meeting in 2 minutes....

        mark