>over an Ethernet patch cable Was I alone in expecting it to be used in an unconventional way? Like, MAC level with not a trace of TCP/IP, or not even Etherne

>over an Ethernet patch cable Was I alone in expecting it to be used in an unconventional way? Like, MAC level with not a trace of TCP/IP, or not even Ethernet but, say, uart over the wire. In any event, I'd suggest rsync, webfs, python -mhttp.server or otherwise anything else than dd.