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socket

Availability and IPv6 support

Name

IPv6 support

Supported operating systems

[http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/src/ socket]

[http://www.vermicelli.pasta.cs.uit.no/ipv6/software.html yes ]

UNIX, Linux, [http://www.freshports.org/search.php?query=socket *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