[sane-devel] ICC support - summing up

[Richard Ryniker]

>Even if you were to do this, the Oyranos backend still has to connect
>to the remote saned instance. If saned is running through inetd, this
>just cannot happen.

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) uses "passive mode" to address this problem.
A similar strategy could solve the inetd issue, but will not discount
your arguments about how the presence of network link(s) can make a scan
operation clumsy and ill-defined.