{"id":7086,"date":"2005-03-14T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-14T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/03\/14\/geek-help\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:33:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:33:03","slug":"geek-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/03\/14\/geek-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Help! I&#8217;m having an issue that I just can&#8217;t seem to figure out&#8230; Hopefully someone here will be able to point me in the right direction. I *think* the problem is with pipes in Windows (XP SP2 specifically) but I&#8217;m not completely sure.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, I&#8217;m doing this: <font face=\"courier\">nc 192.168.0.1 10567 < hugefile.gz<\/font> on the Windows box, and the destination has been Linux, Windows XP, and OS X, all with the same result.<\/p>\n<p>Hugefile is somewhere around 22GB&#8230; What happens is that seemingly no matter where the destination is, it just stops sending after a while, usually with the output file on the target machine being 23MB-24MB. This size is not consistant. I&#8217;ve also gotten these results across a pocket-sized 100MB switch, the company&#8217;s switch to which I&#8217;m connected, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s up&#8230; I think it&#8217;s Windows pipes, or some sort of buffer somewhere?<\/p>\n<p>Sending from Linux to Windows works just fine, as this was how I created the image. (<font face=\"courier\">dd if=\/dev\/hda | gzip -c | nc -w 15 192.168.0.2<\/font>)<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone have any ideas? I&#8217;m really lost&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: A bit more info&#8230; This is what I see on the sending side:<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"courier\">nc -v -v -v -w 30 130.175.142.190 10567 < createdimage.gz\np-p-p-powerbook.XXXXX.XX.XXX.XXX [XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX] 10567 (?) open\nnet timeout\nsent 24887296, rcvd 0: NOTSOCK<\/font><\/p>\n<p>And on the target side:<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"courier\">nc -l -v -v -v -p 10567 > createdimage.gz<br \/>\nlistening on [any] 10567 &#8230;<br \/>\nconnect to [130.175.142.190] from XXXXXX-notebook.XXXXX.XX.XXX.XXX [XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX] 4244<br \/>\n sent 0, rcvd 24215552<\/font><\/p>\n<p>So, yeah. I&#8217;m running out of ideas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help! I&#8217;m having an issue that I just can&#8217;t seem to figure out&#8230; Hopefully someone here will be able to point me in the right direction. I *think* the problem is with pipes in Windows (XP SP2 specifically) but I&#8217;m not completely sure. Basically, I&#8217;m doing this: nc 192.168.0.1 10567 < hugefile.gz on the Windows\u2026\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14543,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions\/14543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}