Re: netcat or netcat6 for Centos 6.3

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On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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