Re: Updated: pipelined/halfclosed connections

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>
> > Right. I'll compile it from source. Which kernel are you using?
>
> Kernel is irrelevant. This has been seen from Linux-2.4.TEST1 to 2.4.24.

Just checking the variables..

> When netcat sees EOF in stdin it calls shutdown(fd, SHUT_WR), this causes
> the TCP transmit channel to shut down (FIN sent).
>
> Looking into details of the netcat I am using and I find it is patched
> with a patch to add half-closed connection support which explains the
> different behaviour we are seeing. Patch attached.

Aha! ok. I've just patched the debian package to do it.

I'll run off and test it out now. Funnily enough, there's a netcat-2.0
floating about, with IPv6 support. I'll have to figure out who to send
the patch to what to..

Adrian
Received on Thu Feb 26 2004 - 18:46:16 MST