From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] netcat - which?
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:54:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGOe-eyLh63uRh4fhn4XzXRHX+p3=Wcga0Dv22xEGUGSP3=UJw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120307123917.33d2ffbb@Gentoo.home>
On 7 March 2012 11:39, Benny Gächter <benny.gaechter@gmail.com> wrote:
> Am Wed, 7 Mar 2012 14:03:45 +0700
> schrieb Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>:
>
>> eix netcat returned net-analyzer/gnu-netcat and net-analyzer/netcat
>>
>> What's the difference? Which one should I emerge?
>>
>> Rgds,
>
> net-analyzer/netcat is http://nc110.sourceforge.net/
> and net-analyzer/gnu-netcat is http://netcat.sourceforge.net/
>
> Afaik...
The original netcat (net-analyzer/netcat) started suffering from bit
rot and Vapier launched the community edition
(http://nc110.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nc110/) in an effort to clean
the code so that it compiles with modern code and machines. However
that was 5 years ago. I don't know if progress has been slow, or no
devs showed up.
Then gnu-netcat kicked in to do the same thing not much later and also
cater for other platforms.
Finally, netcat6 http://netcat6.sourceforge.net/ showed up with
improvements claiming better ipv6 support and re-write of the netcat
code dropping some features and adding others.
For my rather basic needs and perhaps due to adoption inertia I am
still using the original netcat package, so can't advise about the
others.
--
Regards,
Mick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-07 12:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-07 7:03 [gentoo-user] netcat - which? Pandu Poluan
2012-03-07 11:39 ` Benny Gächter
2012-03-07 12:54 ` Mick [this message]
2012-03-07 14:59 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2012-03-07 15:03 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Mol
2012-03-07 15:28 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2012-03-07 15:37 ` [gentoo-user] " Joshua Murphy
2012-03-07 16:48 ` Pandu Poluan
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