Perpetual UDP shell ?

[Bryce C]

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That's exactly the problem. With packet loss and no error checking, that
last c may be garbled and thus ignored by rm/bash. There's a reason SSH,
telnet, http, etc are all on TCP and not UDP.

On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 09:42, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 wasson@localhost.localdomain wrote:
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> > 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.
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> How do verify that the information sent and received is correct?
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> 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.)
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>    Jeremy C. Reed
>    http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
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Bryce C <Plug@BryceCo.Net>
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