To fast copy something over a network use the following combination of tar and netcat:
dest$ nc -l 8000 | tar -x sour$ tar -pc directory | nc host 8000
Category: network
Work related to OMNeT++
I wrote this article originally back in 2005. It was originally available at http://www.georglutz.de/wiki/OmnetPlusPlus. The information you find below might be rather outdated now and I don’t plan to work on it further, but I put it in the blog for archival purposes on this particular date – Georg in June 2011.