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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:53:07 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Regarding 9p based "protocols" message framing
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> I'd love to have an IP-free, 9p-capable network in the mix. Plan 9
> had this, way back when, with "nonet" (?), but that didn't survive
> the removal of the streams system in the 3rd edition (I know you
> know this already,but I'm not sure how widely it's known).

i'm probablly missing something, but i don't see why your lan couldn't
be ip-free.  you may have to have a sacrifical super-nat machine that
transplants, say, ssh/nonet onto ssh/ip.  the more plan 9-y way would
be to import the gateway.  i'm not sure which would be more elegant.

- erik