since it was mentioned, (and not that anyone cares), found an interpretation of netpipes i wrote for testing the myricom driver. /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/hose.c it turns out that aux/listen1 is enough to replace faucet.
sink% aux/listen1 -v 'tcp!*!6666' /bin/rc -c '/bin/cat > plan9.iso'
source% hose sink < plan9.iso
- erik
