Netcat for the Masses

Having had numerous people recently ask me about the various uses for Netcat I decided to put together a document showing a few handy uses for good ol' Netcat. Netcat has been described as telnet on steroids or a Swiss army knife, both excellent descriptions for this versatile little tool.

Originally written by Hobbit for Linux, Weld Pond later ported it to Windows. In essence it is a tool that reads and writes data across a network connection, using the TCP or UDP Protocol.