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Re: A minimalist network





On 8/17/16 6:00 PM, Brian wrote:
On Wed 17 Aug 2016 at 17:42:31 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:

On 8/17/16 5:14 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:

Do I really want an "ftp server"? I can see the WinXP machine as a
"server". Do I have problems with definitions?
Something has to talk, something has to listen and respond.  Even in a
peer-to-peer setup, there has to be a process listening and responding to
incoming packets.  Whether you call it a process or a server - something has
to be running.
Very well put. I know nothing about Windows but the principle you outline
is fundamental to networking. Nothing listening on one machine, therefore
nothing transferred.

As an alternative to an ftp server there is netcat and Ncat. Both run on
Debian and both have Windows versions.

Good point. If all you want to do is send packets from one machine, and see them show up on another one - netcat is just the ticket.

Then again, for testing whether networking is working on one machine, there's nothing better than having a server running on another machine, and telneting to it's port - see if you get a HELO or equivalent. With netcat, it's all human typing and reading on both sides of the connection.

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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.  .... Yogi Berra


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