> 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