Package: netcat-openbsd
State: not installed
Version: 1.105-7
Priority: optional
Section: net
Maintainer: Aron Xu <aron@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Uncompressed Size: 65.5 k
Depends: libbsd0 (>= 0.2.0), libc6 (>= 2.4)
Breaks: netcat (< 1.10-35)
Replaces: netcat (< 1.10-35)
Provides: netcat
Description: TCP/IP swiss army knife
A simple Unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections using TCP or UDP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable "back-end" tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other
programs and scripts. At the same time it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in
capabilities.
This package contains the OpenBSD rewrite of netcat, including support for IPv6, proxies, and Unix sockets.