Update usage of 'nc' in README.NetConsole
Added information about usage of NetConsole on systems where the -l and -p
switches are mutually exclusive.
Signed-off-by: Igor Marnat <marny@rambler.ru>
Signed-off-by: Ben Warren <bwarren@qstreams.com>
diff --git a/doc/README.NetConsole b/doc/README.NetConsole
index cc35a0a..fea8e33 100644
--- a/doc/README.NetConsole
+++ b/doc/README.NetConsole
@@ -38,6 +38,11 @@
target IP address (or host name, assuming DNS is working). The script
can be interrupted by pressing ^T (CTRL-T).
+Be aware that in some distributives (Fedora Core 5 at least)
+usage of nc has been changed and -l and -p options are considered
+as mutually exclusive. If nc complains about options provided,
+you can just remove the -p option from the script.
+
It turns out that 'netcat' cannot be used to listen to broadcast
packets. We developed our own tool 'ncb' (see tools directory) that
listens to broadcast packets on a given port and dumps them to the