Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-05-05
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : netcat6
Version : 0.2pre2
Upstream Author : Mauro Tortonesi <mauro at ferrara dot linux dot it>
* URL : http://freshmeat.net/projects/nc6/?topic_id=87
: http://project6.ferrara.linux.it/
* License : GPL
Description : TCP/IP swiss army knife with IPv6 support
>From the nc6 manpage:
»netcat6 is a simple unix utility which reads and writes
data across network connections, using TCP or UDP proto
col. It is designed to be a reliable "back-end" tool that
can be used directly or easily driven by other programs
and scripts. At the same time, it is a feature-rich net
work debugging and exploration tool, since it can create
almost any kind of connection you would need and has sev
eral interesting built-in capabilities. netcat6 , or
"nc6" as the actual program is named, should have been
supplied long ago as another one of those cryptic but
standard Unix tools.
In the simplest usage, "nc6 host port" creates a TCP con
nection to the given port on the given target host. Your
standard input is then sent to the host, and anything that
comes back across the connection is sent to your standard
output. This continues indefinitely, until the network
side of the connection shuts down. Note that this
behaviour is different from most other applications which
shut everything down and exit after an end-of-file on the
standard input.
netcat6 can also function as a server, by listening for
inbound connections on arbitrary ports and then doing the
same reading and writing. With minor limitations, netcat6
doesn't really care if it runs in "client" or "server"
mode -- it still shovels data back and forth until there
isn't any more left. In this manual page, these two work
ing modes are referred as "connect mode" and "listen
mode", respectively.«
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux hq.szn.dk 2.4.18 #4 SMP Tue Apr 23 09:08:26 CEST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=da_DK, LC_CTYPE=da_DK
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