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netconsole.txt: revision of examples for the receiver of kernel messages
There are at least 4 implementations of netcat with the BSD-based being the only one that has to be used without the -p switch to specify the listening port. Jan Engelhardt suggested to add an example for socat(1). Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
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Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt

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initialized and attempts to bring up the supplied dev at the supplied
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The remote host can run either 'netcat -u -l -p <port>',
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'nc -l -u <port>' or syslogd.
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The remote host has several options to receive the kernel messages,
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for example:
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1) syslogd
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2) netcat
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On distributions using a BSD-based netcat version (e.g. Fedora,
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openSUSE and Ubuntu) the listening port must be specified without
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the -p switch:
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'nc -u -l -p <port>' / 'nc -u -l <port>' or
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'netcat -u -l -p <port>' / 'netcat -u -l <port>'
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3) socat
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'socat udp-recv:<port> -'
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Dynamic reconfiguration:
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