Bug#145880: RFP: netcat6 -- TCP/IP swiss army knife with IPv6 support

[Klaus Alexander Seistrup <bugs+debian@magnetic-ink.dk>]

Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-05-05
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : netcat6
  Version         : 0.2pre2
  Upstream Author : Mauro Tortonesi <mauro at ferrara dot linux dot it>
* URL             : http://freshmeat.net/projects/nc6/?topic_id=87
                  : http://project6.ferrara.linux.it/
* License         : GPL
  Description     : TCP/IP swiss army knife with IPv6 support

>From the nc6 manpage:

      »netcat6  is  a  simple unix utility which reads and writes
       data across network connections, using TCP or  UDP  proto­
       col.  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 net­
       work debugging and exploration tool, since it  can  create
       almost  any kind of connection you would need and has sev­
       eral interesting  built-in  capabilities.   netcat6  ,  or
       "nc6"  as  the  actual  program is named, should have been
       supplied long ago as another  one  of  those  cryptic  but
       standard Unix tools.

       In  the simplest usage, "nc6 host port" creates a TCP con­
       nection to the given port on the given target host.   Your
       standard input is then sent to the host, and anything that
       comes back across the connection is sent to your  standard
       output.   This  continues  indefinitely, until the network
       side  of  the  connection  shuts  down.   Note  that  this
       behaviour  is different from most other applications which
       shut everything down and exit after an end-of-file on  the
       standard input.

       netcat6  can  also  function as a server, by listening for
       inbound connections on arbitrary ports and then doing  the
       same reading and writing.  With minor limitations, netcat6
       doesn't really care if it runs  in  "client"  or  "server"
       mode  --  it still shovels data back and forth until there
       isn't any more left.  In this manual page, these two work­
       ing  modes  are  referred  as  "connect  mode" and "listen
       mode", respectively.«

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux hq.szn.dk 2.4.18 #4 SMP Tue Apr 23 09:08:26 CEST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=da_DK, LC_CTYPE=da_DK



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