ncp

Availability and IPv6 support

Description

npush and npoll are tools to quickly copy files over an IP LAN. npush will send UDP multicast/broadcast packets to advertise that it is willing to send files, npoll will look for these UDP packets and then connect to the sending machine. The advantage is that you don't have to type the name of the machine that you want to send data to, and you don't have to type the name of the server. Optionally, you can tell npoll the name of the server. This is useful if the server is not in the same LAN. If you do not give npush any arguments, it will copy stdin over the network. npoll will in this case output the data to stdout. To make this work in pipes, the diagnostic messages are now output on stderr. npush will use TCP port 8002 for its connections and for the UDP packets. npush will try to advertise using IPv6 multicast, but it will fall back to IPv4 multicast and IPv4 broadcast.

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Usage information

Categories

CategoryApps, CategoryAppsftp, CategoryAppssysutils

Source of information

Bieringer IPv6 pages