Tiny Core Linux

General TC => General TC Talk => Topic started by: hseisyu on February 19, 2014, 11:34:54 PM

Title: Netcat and udp broadcast
Post by: hseisyu on February 19, 2014, 11:34:54 PM

Hello.

I'm studying networking and using GNS3 (a network simulator) with many instances of Tinycore linux. Tinycore linux is very useful but now I don't know how to send udp broadcast packets. I know netcat is the most common tool to do this, but pre-instelled netcat doesn't seem to support the broadcasting option, and alternative package 'socat' is not listed in the Tinycore extensions.

Does anyone know easy ways to send udp broadcast packets using Tinycore linux?

Title: Re: Netcat and udp broadcast
Post by: gerald_clark on February 19, 2014, 11:43:32 PM

Not true, socat.tcz is in the repo.

Title: Re: Netcat and udp broadcast
Post by: hseisyu on February 19, 2014, 11:49:09 PM

Wow, I've missed it.
Thank you anyway!

i want to remove my post...

Title: Re: Netcat and udp broadcast
Post by: Rich on February 19, 2014, 11:50:23 PM

Hi hseisyu

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i want to remove my post...

No need, just leave it.

Title: Re: Netcat and udp broadcast
Post by: hseisyu on February 19, 2014, 11:52:09 PM

OK, thank you :)

Title: Re: Netcat and udp broadcast
Post by: gerald_clark on February 19, 2014, 11:56:56 PM

Your welcome.  By leaving the post, someone else may do a search on netcat and find that socat is available.

Title: Re: Netcat and udp broadcast
Post by: hseisyu on February 20, 2014, 12:05:16 AM

OK, I'll leave it!