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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: netcat nc only ipv4 (ping6 ipv6 already present)
From:       Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2014-08-31 12:41:43
Message-ID: CAK1hOcNCL9if4BWG_KPs7jMNND-Y4kEbnhBXMZrQ11xMoNCEGw () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 6:35 AM, Jaro Gress <gressau@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> It would be great  to have netcat nc upgraded to handle ipv6.
> the usual option is "nc -6 -l xxxxx" or "nc -6 -l -p xxxxx".
> The -p option could be done without. It is kind of non standard.
> ping6 is handling ipv6 already well.

It already works:

# busybox nc -vvv -l -s [::]:1234
listening on [::]:1234 ...

I use -s HOST[:PORT] in this example instead of -p PORT
to let nc disambiguate whether to use IPv4 or IPv6.
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