Contents

  1. socket
    1. Availability and IPv6 support
    2. Description
    3. Comments
    4. Usage information
    5. Categories
    6. Source of information

socket

Availability and IPv6 support

Name

IPv6 support

Supported operating systems

socket

yes

UNIX, Linux, *BSD

Description

The program Socket implements access to TCP sockets from shell level. First written for the need to open a server socket and read and write to the socket interactively for testing purposes, it quickly evolved into a generic tool providing the socket interface for shell script and interactive use.

Comments

Usage information

Categories

CategoryApps, CategoryAppssysutils

Source of information

NetBSD package collection, ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/README-IPv6.html

Campus6: Apps_socket (last edited 2008-04-10 15:29:35 by localhost)