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Re: redboot load method with netcat
- From: Gary Thomas <gthomas at ecoscentric dot com>
- To: Jani Monoses <jani at iv dot ro>
- Cc: eCos patches <ecos-patches at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 04 Sep 2002 06:52:22 -0600
- Subject: Re: redboot load method with netcat
- References: <20020904153957.2f05a8a4.jani@iv.ro>
On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 09:39, Jani Monoses wrote:
> Hi
> this lets redboot connect to any specified port on the host for downloading.
> example:
> #nc -l -p 578 < image.elf on the host
>
> load -m nc -h IP -p 578 in redboot;
> if no -p is specified 8000 is used for the port.
> The advantages of this method is that no server setup or root privileges are required on the host
> and images need not be copied to specific directories.OTOH it is not easily automated since
> one needs to manually break host nc or call it with -w timeout.
What is 'nc' (netcat)? Is this a standard program?
The process/form of using this method doesn't seem all that
useful to me, since it's so cumbersome.
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