You can quit the client by sending interrupt CTRL + D. It should be displayed on tab where nc is listening. Telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refusedĪfter connected, type “Hello”, you should see that text in the tab where netcat is listening Connect Using NetCat nc localhost 9876 $ nc localhost 9876Īfter connected, we sent some text. You can connect to this TCP port from the other tab(terminal) using either netcat or telnet Connect Using Telnet telnet localhost 9876 Now netcat is listening on the given port on localhost. Where netcat will listen on TCP port by default with out that option. This is same as UDP mentioned above except we haven’t specified the option -u. Listen for TCP on specific host and port using netcat nc -lv 9876 Port You must specify the port on which nc should listen on. Ip Address It is optional, if it is not specified localhost will be used That is, listen for UDP on give port, by default it listens for TCP unless we give this option. L Forcing netcat to listen on given host and port instead of opening/making connection with remote host and port Listen for the connections and print the data sent by the clients Listen for UDP on specific host and port using netcat According to the scope of the article we will see how to open a TCP or UDP connection and print the data sent by connected clients, but this tool is more than capable of just listening on port for a connection. Yeah, there is tool called netcat. Usually it comes with many linux distributions by default, also called nc. But we want the tool which will listen on given port for connections unlike telnet. We are well known about telnet which is pretty much handy tool to debug and open a TCP connection to remote server:port.

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