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Check remote UDP connectivity from Linux

By Anonymous
Hi there,
You all know how to check TCP port connectivity from a Linux or UNIX machine to a remote machine using telnet as per th example below
$ telnet 127.0.0.1 25

but we can't adopt TELNET to check UDP connectivity.

Linux and most of the UNIXes come with a network layer utility called nc (abbreviation for netcat) which is very useful to check UDP connectivity and to explore a lot with both TCP and UDP.

An example is shown below

# nc -v -u -z -w 3 172.24.16.131 123
Connection to 172.24.16.131 123 port [udp/ntp] succeeded!

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Anonymous said…
Hi,

It doasn't work under ubuntu!!

On a console I did:
root@gateway:~# nc -vv -u -l -p 123
listening on [any] 123 ...

On the other
root@xmg-pc:/tmp# nc -vv -z -u -w 3 localhost 123
root@xmg-pc:/tmp#

As you see nothing happen!!
November 21, 2012 at 11:45 PM
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February 3, 2013 at 2:54 PM
Anonymous said…
Hi,
I do not understand -vv and -w.. The -w has nothing to along with -l option. Can you try without these options... And what is that localhost means. Are you trying locally on client machine xmg-pc? Try with gateway...
February 3, 2013 at 2:58 PM
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