On 2022-01-18 at 12:48, Brian wrote: > On Tue 18 Jan 2022 at 11:50:14 -0500, Celejar wrote: > >> On Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:47:09 +0000 Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> >> wrote: >>> Wonder no longer :). Acquaint yourself with netcat. >> >> How is netcat going to help if there's no networking on one >> machine? And if there is (e.g., using a wired connection), then >> netcat isn't really necessary, since the machine connected to the >> internet can be configured to route packets to the other one. > > Rhetorical? netcat is obviously dependent on a working network. Yes, so since the entire problem is that one of the machines involved doesn't have a working network, how does netcat help? > Thank you for the second solution to avoiding sneakernet. I'm confused. What are you talking about? I don't see any alternative suggested above, beyond what obviously isn't applicable because it assumes having a network connection, which as indicated isn't the case. Unless you mean "e.g., using a wired connection"? It's not clear that that's an available option in this case, either, although there are probably a lot of cases where it will be. (I've had the misfortune recently, in my workplace, of having to image and set up a lot of laptops which don't come with a wired Ethernet adapter, and most recently with ones that don't come with an external USB-or-similar wired-Ethernet adapter dongle either.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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