[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] README.NetConsole

Igor Marnat marny at rambler.ru
Wed Mar 21 07:55:01 CET 2007


Hello Ben,

BW> I don't think it's necessary to repeat the script in its entirety, since
BW> the difference is only two characters.  The descriptive paragraph should
BW> be enough.

Yes, I think you are right.


BW> Also, please submit with a 'Signed-off-by' line so it gets properly
BW> tracked.

I'm not an advanced user of git unfortunately. Anyway, I did my best, hope it's ok
now.


Signed-off-by: Igor Marnat <marny at rambler.ru>
---
 doc/README.NetConsole |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/README.NetConsole b/doc/README.NetConsole
index cc35a0a..950b0c4 100644
--- a/doc/README.NetConsole
+++ b/doc/README.NetConsole
@@ -38,6 +38,11 @@ The script expects exactly one argument, which is interpreted as  the
 target IP address (or host name, assuming DNS is working). The script
 can be interrupted by pressing ^T (CTRL-T).
 
+Be aware that in some distributives (Fedora Core 5 at least)
+usage of nc has been changed and -l and -p options are considered
+as mutually exclusive. If nc complains about options provided,
+you can just remove the -p option from the script. 
+
 It turns out that 'netcat' cannot be used to listen to broadcast
 packets. We developed our own tool 'ncb' (see tools directory) that
 listens to broadcast packets on a given port and dumps them to the
-- 
1.4.4.2


Best regards,
Igor Marnat
mailto:marny at rambler.ru





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