The university system at which I am tenured has limited practical 
respect for Faculty but much lipservice to the concept -- that is the 
reality.  I simply was asking if such a utility existed within EL or 
Linux in general -- it evidently does not.  UUCP does not easily work 
over USB although at one time it did work for point-to-point RS-232 
connections.  In the future, I will omit the background as to why I post 
such a request for a utility, merely that I need such a utility if it 
exists.  In the best of all possible worlds -- not this one -- I would 
have a grad student, or even a talented undergrad, see if UUCP could be 
modified.  For now, I am using the modern equivalent of sneaker net.  
Sorry to have bothered you.

Yasha Karant

On 03/27/2015 12:37 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
>
> Yasha, this is getting tiresome - your continuing use of this mailing
> list to obtain free technical support for (imho) bizarre problems or wishes -
> most of them complete with pity pledges "please help me, our IT nazi would give me no soup"
> (as in Soup Nazi, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soup_Nazi, not the other, bad, nazis).
>
> If your IT problems are real, and if they negatively affect
> your work productivity, why don't you have the boss of your boss
> have a talk with the boss of the boss of the IT departement's boss
> to straighten it all out? If you work at a university, you must
> know how this works.
>
>
> K.O.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 04:37:34PM -0700, Yasha Karant wrote:
>> My desktop workstation (currently X86-64 SL 7) has only one 802.3
>> physical port.  At my university, the IT gestapo will not allow the
>> use of a local 802.3 repeater (switch or hub) but requires a valid
>> NIC MAC address and will disconnect any changes.  I have no 802.11
>> WNIC on my desktop workstation.  I just have obtained a new HP Zbook
>> to run X86-64 Linux to replace my old mobile workstation (laptop)
>> that was underprovisioned for 64 bit operation, had a worn out
>> keyboard and pointing device, etc. (I regret to state that I am
>> experimenting with OpenSUSE 13.2 on that machine for reasons beyond
>> the subject matter of this post.)  The IT gestapo will not allow my
>> workstation to serve as a HTTP server, etc. -- one cannot use scp,
>> sftp, etc., for file transfer over the IT network from a desktop
>> workstation (not a designated server).  I could attempt to transfer
>> all of the files to the research network that has much less IT
>> gestapo control -- but this is as tedious as what I am now doing.
>> Hence, a question:
>>
>> Is there a software application utility that will convert a USB
>> network between two machines running standard open systems protocols
>> to allow file transfer between the two machines?  I am not referring
>> to the methods used with an Android device, but with a regular Linux
>> workstation.  A cursory search of such things on the web did not
>> provide any insight.  At one time, UUCP would do this over a RS232
>> point-to-point link (cable) -- will this approach still work over a
>> USB (not RS232) link?  Is there something better than UUCP?
>>
>> Yasha Karant