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[PATCH 14/14] netconsole.txt: revision of examples for the receiver of kernel messages

From: Cong Wang <hidden>
Date: 2012-08-10 07:11:36
Subsystem: documentation, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Dirk Gouders <redacted>

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 <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <redacted>
---
 Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt |   19 +++++++++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt b/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt
index 8d02207..2e9e0ae2 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt
@@ -51,8 +51,23 @@ Built-in netconsole starts immediately after the TCP stack is
 initialized and attempts to bring up the supplied dev at the supplied
 address.
 
-The remote host can run either 'netcat -u -l -p <port>',
-'nc -l -u <port>' or syslogd.
+The remote host has several options to receive the kernel messages,
+for example:
+
+1) syslogd
+
+2) netcat
+
+   On distributions using a BSD-based netcat version (e.g. Fedora,
+   openSUSE and Ubuntu) the listening port must be specified without
+   the -p switch:
+
+   'nc -u -l -p <port>' / 'nc -u -l <port>' or
+   'netcat -u -l -p <port>' / 'netcat -u -l <port>'
+
+3) socat
+
+   'socat udp-recv:<port> -'
 
 Dynamic reconfiguration:
 ========================
-- 
1.7.7.6
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