I can't speak for Erik's cec-as-nonet setup specifically, but I've wanted nonet (or an equivalent) many, many times. Networks are fast enough that tcp/ip overhead isn't really something that hurts in most cases, but it does exist.
Also, I really want to exercise the cross-network parts of Plan 9. > On Nov 19, 2014, at 10:34 , Aram Hăvărneanu <ara...@mgk.ro> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 3:36 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: >> by the way, at one point i had a hacked up kernel which allowed me to >> mount a file server over the cec protocol. > > In what situation would this be useful? > > -- > Aram Hăvărneanu