Netcat port listener¶

A Netcat port listener refers to the use of the Netcat utility to configure a local machine to listen for incoming network connections on a specified port.^[600-developer-tools-windows-windows-netcat.md]

Configuration¶

To set up a listener on port 8888 that accepts connections on all interfaces, the following command syntax can be used^[600-developer-tools-windows-windows-netcat.md]:

nc -l -L -p 8888 -s 0.0.0.0

Related Concepts¶

• [[Netcat]]
• [[Network debugging]]
• [[Port scanning]]

Sources¶

• 600-developer-tools-windows-windows-netcat.md