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netconsole.txt: revision of examples for the receiver of kernel messages
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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 <gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Dirk Gouders authored and David S. Miller committed Aug 14, 2012
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Expand Up @@ -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:
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