I’m trying to write a server using netcat and bash. to recieve asynchronous packets, i’m using the command
netcat -lu 6791
How can I tell what host a packet came from? Is there a better tool i should be using then netcat (socat maybe?)
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@twalberg’s suggestion,
netcat -vv -lu -p 6791worked.