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netconsole.txt: revision of examples for the receiver of kernel messages

There are at least 4 implementations of netcat with the BSD-based
being the only one that has to be used without the -p switch to
specify the listening port.

Jan Engelhardt suggested to add an example for socat(1).

Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders <gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

authored by

Dirk Gouders and committed by
David S. Miller
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Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt
··· 51 51 initialized and attempts to bring up the supplied dev at the supplied 52 52 address. 53 53 54 - The remote host can run either 'netcat -u -l -p <port>', 55 - 'nc -l -u <port>' or syslogd. 54 + The remote host has several options to receive the kernel messages, 55 + for example: 56 + 57 + 1) syslogd 58 + 59 + 2) netcat 60 + 61 + On distributions using a BSD-based netcat version (e.g. Fedora, 62 + openSUSE and Ubuntu) the listening port must be specified without 63 + the -p switch: 64 + 65 + 'nc -u -l -p <port>' / 'nc -u -l <port>' or 66 + 'netcat -u -l -p <port>' / 'netcat -u -l <port>' 67 + 68 + 3) socat 69 + 70 + 'socat udp-recv:<port> -' 56 71 57 72 Dynamic reconfiguration: 58 73 ========================