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> netcat is (a bit, due to BSD vs GNU) more portable Note that GNU doesn't have a netcat implementation. There's a netcat implementation that calls itself "GN
by LukeShu 6y ago
> netcat is (a bit, due to BSD vs GNU) more portable
Note that GNU doesn't have a netcat implementation. There's a netcat implementation that calls itself "GNU netcat", but it isn't actually associated with GNU, and the authors are jerks for naming it that.
But also, there are more netcat implementations than just 2!
- OpenBSD netcat
- "GNU" Netcat (http://netcat.sourceforge.net http://netcat.sourceforge.net)
- BusyBox netcat
- Nmap's `ncat`
- Netcat6 (http://www.deepspace6.net/projects/netcat6.html http://www.deepspace6.net/projects/netcat6.html)
And all of them are just different enough from eachother...
- MayeulC 6y agoThanks for that tidbit about "GNU" netcat. That's quite strange, I'll look more into this. I like the fact that Solaris netcat supports socks proxies, that's really useful, especially in combination with `ssh -D`.