From f0d4607d25639457f4a5e1af7c3037e427950fa4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Shevchenko Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 20:15:06 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] tools/netconsole: Add support for socat socat is a very powerful tool to work with socets (and not only) in UNIX systems. Let's add support for it in netconsole. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko Tested-by: Ferry Toth Reviewed-by: Ramon Fried --- tools/netconsole | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/netconsole b/tools/netconsole index 1a0ef22244..155453320f 100755 --- a/tools/netconsole +++ b/tools/netconsole @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ if [ -z "${ip}" ] || [ -n "$4" ] ; then usage "Invalid number of arguments" fi -for nc in netcat nc ; do +for nc in socat netcat nc ; do type ${nc} >/dev/null 2>&1 && break done @@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ if type ncb 2>/dev/null ; then # see if ncb is in $PATH exec ncb ${board_out_port} +elif [ "${nc}" = "socat" ] ; then + # socat does support broadcast + while ${nc} STDIO "UDP4-LISTEN:${board_out_port}"; do :; done + elif [ -x ${0%/*}/ncb ] ; then # maybe it's in the same dir as the netconsole script exec ${0%/*}/ncb ${board_out_port} @@ -59,5 +63,9 @@ else fi ) & pid=$! -${nc} -u ${ip} ${board_in_port} +if [ "${nc}" = "socat" ] ; then + ${nc} - "UDP4:${ip}:${board_in_port}" +else + ${nc} -u ${ip} ${board_in_port} +fi kill ${pid} 2>/dev/null -- 2.39.5