From: Dirk Gouders <gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 01:24:51 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: netconsole.txt: revision of examples for the receiver of kernel messages
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netconsole.txt: revision of examples for the receiver of kernel messages

There are at least 4 implementations of netcat with the BSD-based
being the only one that has to be used without the -p switch to
specify the listening port.

Jan Engelhardt suggested to add an example for socat(1).

Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders <gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt b/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt
index 8d022073e3ef..2e9e0ae2cd45 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt
@@ -51,8 +51,23 @@ Built-in netconsole starts immediately after the TCP stack is
 initialized and attempts to bring up the supplied dev at the supplied
 address.
 
-The remote host can run either 'netcat -u -l -p <port>',
-'nc -l -u <port>' or syslogd.
+The remote host has several options to receive the kernel messages,
+for example:
+
+1) syslogd
+
+2) netcat
+
+   On distributions using a BSD-based netcat version (e.g. Fedora,
+   openSUSE and Ubuntu) the listening port must be specified without
+   the -p switch:
+
+   'nc -u -l -p <port>' / 'nc -u -l <port>' or
+   'netcat -u -l -p <port>' / 'netcat -u -l <port>'
+
+3) socat
+
+   'socat udp-recv:<port> -'
 
 Dynamic reconfiguration:
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