The standard netcat, while ubiquitous, doesn't handle broadcast udp packets
properly. The local ncb util does however. So if ncb can be located in
the standard locations, automatically use that instead.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
While the doc/README.NetConsole does have a snippet for people to
create their own netcat script, it's a lot easier to make a simple
dedicated script and tell people to use it.
Also spruce it up a bit to make it user friendly.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Added information about usage of NetConsole on systems where the -l and -p
switches are mutually exclusive.
Signed-off-by: Igor Marnat <marny@rambler.ru>
Signed-off-by: Ben Warren <bwarren@qstreams.com>
Add call to eth_halt() in net/net.c when called functions fail
after eth_init() has been called.
* Patch by Sam Song, 3 April 2005:
- Update README.Netconsole
- Update README
Update etags build target
* Improve NetConsole support: add support for broadcast destination
address and buffered input.
* Cleanup compiler warnings for GCC 3.3.x and later
* Fix problem in cmd_jffs2.c introduced by CFG_JFFS_SINGLE_PART patch
Mike Frysinger
Peter Tyser
Igor Marnat
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