From 443feb740584e406efa203af909fe2926608e8d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Igor Marnat Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:55:01 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Update usage of 'nc' in README.NetConsole Added information about usage of NetConsole on systems where the -l and -p switches are mutually exclusive. Signed-off-by: Igor Marnat Signed-off-by: Ben Warren --- doc/README.NetConsole | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/README.NetConsole b/doc/README.NetConsole index cc35a0a8ff..fea8e33646 100644 --- a/doc/README.NetConsole +++ b/doc/README.NetConsole @@ -38,6 +38,11 @@ The script expects exactly one argument, which is interpreted as the target IP address (or host name, assuming DNS is working). The script can be interrupted by pressing ^T (CTRL-T). +Be aware that in some distributives (Fedora Core 5 at least) +usage of nc has been changed and -l and -p options are considered +as mutually exclusive. If nc complains about options provided, +you can just remove the -p option from the script. + It turns out that 'netcat' cannot be used to listen to broadcast packets. We developed our own tool 'ncb' (see tools directory) that listens to broadcast packets on a given port and dumps them to the -- 2.39.5