NetKitty is now hosted in Savannah. Go there for getting the latest sources from git, report bugs, etc...

Description

Do you think Netcat is a really powerful tool?. So I do, but I don't use most of the features of this great tool, and, at the same time I would like to have some other features. That's the reason I wrote Netkitty (nk for friends).

Check the features below or go for the full tutorial to learn how to get the most from NetKitty.

Features and Status

The main features of NetKitty are:

Can establish several TCP and UDP client connections simultaneously
Support of rfcomm Bluetooth connections
Can listen to several ports simultaneously
Hub mode (Poor's Man IM): Anything coming from any connection is forwarded to any other active connections.
Shell mode (Poor's Man telnet): Basic remote shell... really basic
Less than 500 LOC

Documentation

Here you can find some documentation on NetKitty.

Tutorial. Several use examples
How to compile NetKitty to be really small. Coming Soon

Some blog entries on using NetKitty in real world!:

NetKitty successful tales
Using NetKitty to test networking performance and monitoring protocol messages
Old Successful histories
A couple of uses of the old version of NetKitty (gemserver).
Controlling several picoFlamingo Presentations at the same time
How to use NetKitty to control several picoFlamingo Instances from one machine

Screenshots

See an OpenMoko Freerunner sending messages to an i386 laptop!! here.

Download

Current version is 1.7

Version 1.7 (RSO)

Precompiled static binaries for different platforms. No libbluetooth dependency.

i386 Linux Static (dietc) 9.8Kb!!!
ARM (ARMv4 - OpenMoko) Linux Static Binary 30Kb
ARM (BeagleBoard) Linux Static Binary 38Kb (should work on any ARM/linux system)

Source Code. No longer depends on libbluetooth.

Source Code (.c) 13Kb
Get the full package at Savannah

Everything from Savannah git.

GIT Repository. Get the latest source code and binaries for i386, ARMv4 and ARMv7.

Version 1.6

No public release of version 1.6

Version 1.5

Precompiled static binaries for different platforms are available.

i386 Linux Static (uClibc) 34Kb (dietc) 21Kb
ARM (ARMv4 - OpenMoko) Linux Static Binary 38Kb

Source Code. Depends on libbluetooth.

Source Code (.c) 13Kb