On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 wasson@localhost.localdomain wrote:

> On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 06:48:59PM -0700, Entelin wrote:
> > Is there such a thing for linux as a UDP telnet ? I think it would be
> > useful for extremely unreliable connections such as a high altitude
> > weather balloon communicating over packet HAM radio. I dont want any
> > security, etc etc, just essentially a perpetual shell on udp.
>
> Yes, it is possible to do UDP telnet. I've done this using netcat. You can
> also setup a nice insecure shell using netcat as a listener.

How do verify that the information sent and received is correct?

I wouldn't want to send across "rm fileabc" and have it delete "fileab",
for example. (Or visa versa: I may type something, but the echo back may
be different.)

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/