[ds6] Using NC6 as a circuit level proxy between IPv6 and IPv4

Eric Vyncke evyncke at cisco.com
Fri May 9 18:24:03 CEST 2003


At 16:31 9/05/2003 +0300, Chris Leishman wrote:
Netcat (and nc6 at the moment) only supports listening for connections XOR establishing outgoing connections.  You can't package them together.

>Fortunately this is pretty easy to work around by getting nc6 to create another copy of itself via the --exec function:
>
>nc6 -v -v --listen --port=8080 --address=local_addr --exec 'nc6 target 80'


Thanks, downloaded the latest CVS, compile and it works fine (specially with --continuous option).

The only thing 'missing' (with several workarounds -- so feel free to ignore) is a --daemon option ;-)

-eric



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