Could be a faster way of transferring large files across the VPN. Given that VPN traffic is already encrypted (I think?), it seems silly to use ssh/scp which is what I normally use. Even for transferring files within the office e.g. from dev1, ssh/scp is overkill.
you are on lan party or on the road and quickly want to transfer a file or directory to another computer. Both computer owners are just to lazy to setup something like ftp, smb, nfs.
<sep/>root@(none):~# tar zcvf wrt-backup.tar.gz wrt/* To transfer the tarball to another host, use netcat. Start a listening netcat en port 4444 on 192.168.1.10 for example
how to backup your linux system using bash, tar and netcat. alternatives in the comments
i recently ran into the problem of not having enough hard drive space
on my slackware linux laptop, but was lucky enough to have a much
bigger drive sitting arou