File sharing with the CLI

[Avi Greenbury]

Knapp wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Ian Coetzee
> <ubuntu at iancoetzee.za.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Ian Coetzee
> > <ubuntu at iancoetzee.za.net> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>> Hello,  I have a computer that I think has networking set up,
> >>> (linux). I have a second small laptop that is CLI from the rescue
> >>> CD remix. I want to send a file from the laptop to the main
> >>> computer. They are both on the same router. How do I do this?
> >>> What must I do to the laptop to make this work? THanks!
> >>
> > replying to myself here
> >
> > Note that this will only work if the remote machine has
> > OpenSSH-server installed and configured
> >
> > Regards
> > Ian
> 
> SSH will go through the Internet server right? 

If you're sshing from a box on your lan to another box on your lan, it
wont go to the internet - it'll just go to the router and then out to
the other box on your lan.

In general, networking traffic takes the shortest possible route.


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