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Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:15:36 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Dirk Gouders <gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] netconsole.txt: "nc" needs "-p" to specify the
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On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:24:53AM +0200, Dirk Gouders wrote:
> Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Dirk Gouders
> > <gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de> wrote:
> >> Hi Jesse,
> >>
> >> I would like to ask you to check if the documentation of "nc" in
> >> netconsole.txt is still correct.  I tried two different netcat packages
> >> and both require "-p" to specify the listening port.  I am wondering if
> >> that changed after the use of "nc" has been documented.
> >
> > On Fedora 16, `nc -u -l <port number>` works fine.
> 
> Thanks for checking that.
> 
> If the information I found is correct, Fedora uses OpenBSD's nc
> codebase.  The two netcat packages I tested on a Gentoo system differ in
> requiring the -p switch for the port specification.

So say exactly that in the doc: that the *BSD's version of nc doesn't
need the port number specified with '-p' and you're covered.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.