Package: netcat-openbsd (1.226-1.1 and others)

TCP/IP swiss army knife

A simple Unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections using TCP or UDP protocol. 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 network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities.

This package contains the OpenBSD rewrite of netcat, including support for IPv6, proxies, and Unix sockets.

Tags: Implemented in: C, User Interface: Command Line, Networking: network::client, protocol::ip, Network Protocol: IPv6, TCP, protocol::udp, role::program, Scope: Utility, Application Suite: BSD, Purpose: use::transmission, works-with::network-traffic

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