>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.
