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Technical note: transfer files over an ethernet patch cable

Quality: 8/10 Relevance: 9/10

Summary

A technical note describing how to transfer files directly between two Linux machines over a patched Ethernet cable using IPv6 addresses and socat. It discusses performance (near 900 Mbps), compares with cloud storage and USB, and notes that raw link-layer communications can bypass TCP/IP stacks for simple data transfer.

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