See for instance: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/9p_services_using_srv,_listen,_exportfs,_import/ http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/9p_services_using

See for instance: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/9p_services_using_srv,_listen,_exportfs,_import/ http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/9p_services_using_srv,... TLS tunneling is common. v9fs and diod give SSH port forwarding as an option. It's very generic, so the options are plentiful. 9P is formally transport-agnostic, from what I recall. Plan 9 natively preferred IL over TCP for a while before officially deprecating it around 2003.