[svlug] help transfering data over 1394 cable

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Daniel Gimpelevich (daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us):

> Although you provided correct information, it was I who at least attempted
> to avoid pointless complexities, such as creating a new private network
> segment connected through a semi-private network segment.

Avoiding exposure of infamously insecure network protocols to the
public Internet is "pointless"?  This is obviously some sense of the
term "pointless" with which I was previously unacquainted.  

This dialogue seems to have somehow gone transrational -- not even
counting the bizarre obfuscation about the word "transport", your
misconception about their being an "rcp daemon", and so on.

> > I believe you misspelled "I gave Christian misleadingly bad information
> > on a subject I was already aware I knew nothing about."
> 
> Wow, I never thought you'd stoop to intentional libel on a public mailing
> list... (Yes, I'm fully aware of what you always say about that.)

Que?  Saying someone gave someone else misleadingly bad information, or
that that person happens to not know that subject, is not "libel" in any
universe of my acquaintance.

> I mentioned NFS as counterpoint to rsh/rcp....

"Counterpoint"?  (WTF?)

> and warned about it not being "perfectly suited to this."

"Not perfectly suited" should be most reasonably read as "bend over and
kiss your system security goodbye?"  I see.

> Wanna know where he came up with the idea of using FISH for that?

Not especially.

> From _that_ being what I recommended, for precisely the above reason,
> despite my opinion that nobody would be masochistic enough to want to
> reconstruct DV data from a packet dump, anyway.

For moving 1.5 terabytes?  Across an SSH channel?  Good luck with that.
I hope he's not in any hurry.

> Since the non-private network segment is what assigns 10.x.x.x addresses,
> that would require setting up an addressing system (read: deciding on a
> couple of numbers exactly once) for the private segment...

Um, big flippin' deal.  

Listen, I'm tired of arguing with extremely wacky and bizarre network
schemes.   If you want to urge this guy to move 1.5 TB across an SSH
tunnel, good luck to both of you.  I give up.