plan 9 is not really intended to boot terminals off a file server hundreds of miles away unless you have a really fast connection.
I have been using two programs from the octopus, oxport/ofs (in sources, contrib) as a styx<---ofs----> op <----oxport----> ns gateway, it seems to work well when ping reports 120+ ms of rtt. I use this to boot a locat inferno to work using our FS file tree and it seems to work well. I think I copied the man pages along with the source into sources.
