On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Brian wrote: > On machine B: (IP 10.1.1.1) > nc -l -n -v -p 8888 > somefile > > It says listening on [any] 8888 > > On machine A: (IP 10.1.1.254) > cat /etc/hosts | nc -n -v 10.1.1.1 8888 Update: I've figured out my broken pipe problem. In an earlier test I used a > instead of | and I dumped /etc/hosts into /usr/sbin/nc. Not going to work that way! So I reinstalled the binary and tried again. Workstation B reports: connect to [10.1.1.1] from (UNKNOWN) [10.1.1.254] 4367 and A reports: (UNKNOWN) [10.1.1.1] 8888 (?) open and there it sits. How long should it take to cat /etc/hosts over a 10 Mb switched network? It's been sitting for about 5 min so I'm wondering what's up. -Brian