netcat

What is netcat?

Netcat is a featured networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP/IP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable "back-end" tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities.

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• Connect
• Networking
• Tunnel
• Peer-To-Peer
• Network Tools
• Network Monitoring

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Categories

Network & Admin • File Sharing

Tags

• ipv6
• tcp
• UDP
• connection

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Our users have written 0 comments and reviews about netcat, and it has gotten 33 likes

• Developed by GNU
• Open Source and Free product.
• 21 alternatives listed

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netcat was added to AlternativeTo by kafene on Oct 9, 2012 and this page was last updated Jan 26, 2022.

Recent user activities on netcat

• SuperS06 thinks Packet Sender is an alternative to netcat
  12 months ago
• SuperS06 doesn't think Wireshark is an alternative to netcat
  Wireshark is a tool for monitoring network traffic. Netcat is a tool for generating traffic.
  12 months ago
• bigbigboy added netcat as alternative(s) to HttpCanary
  about 1 year ago