[diginux]

Doesn't seem to work for me

sender$ tar -c awesome.jpg | nc -l 0.0.0.0 12345

(waiting forever)

recipient$ nc 255.255.255.255 12345 | tar -x

tar: This does not look like a tar archive

tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

[bluehex]

I'm not at a terminal now so can't verify this but it looks like you swapped the send and receive addresses from what was suggested. Try send on broadcast and receive on 0.0.0.0.