[ale] IP over USB
DJ-Pfulio
DJPfulio at jdpfu.com
Thu Sep 9 10:56:21 EDT 2021
On 9/9/21 8:42 AM, Boris Borisov via Ale wrote:
> I'm playing with small system. You can think of it as SoC with LCD
> and keyboard. So is not much more powerful than average router off
> the shelf. I'm trying openwrt build for it. The image is bare with
> only communicating interface usb0 with IP assigned to it.
>
> Have anyone used the IP over USB thingy. How you physically connect
> two machines. The only case I can think is phone to computer. But how
> you would connect two computers.
I never used it, but in the late 1990s, cable modems often were connected via USB-networking to the computer. It was the normal USB-A and fat USB connectors that were used. The lack of firewall was an issue, but it was fun seeing all the CIFS shares for the neighborhood ... er ... so I heard.
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