Greetings! Seth Arnold wrote: > >>which makes me think I that I am not closing the connection properly. How do >>people end the netcat session once the DD has reported all the data blocks >>that it has read? > > Netcat automatically closes the connection when it runs out of data to > read. Had this phenomenon once or twice. The timeout may happen if the sending party is much slower than the reveiving one AND the receiving one also is the listening nc. See http://www.wyae.de/docs/ for a detailed explanation on how to (reliably) mirror disks or partitions via networks. Imaged a number (~100) PCs without flaw this way. Bye Volker Tanger IT-Security Consulting -- discon gmbh Wrangelstraße 100 D-10997 Berlin fon +49 30 6104-3307 fax +49 30 6104-3461 volker.tangerat_private http://www.discon.de/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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