[ale] IP over USB

[Phil Turmel]

FWIW, USB3 1G ethernet adapters are so cheap and well supported that you 
might just want to get one for each host with a short patch cord between 
them.

(:

On 9/9/21 5:15 PM, Phil Turmel via Ale wrote:
> Hi Boris,
> 
> The key to such a connection is that USB expects one end to be master 
> and the other a slave.  Typical PC USB ports are all Masters.  So you 
> need a device (not just a cable) that has master connections on both 
> ends.  Some possibilities in this article:
> 
> http://www.linux-usb.org/usbnet/
> 
> Note that USB-C can be either master or slave, but generally not 
> auto-selecting.  On my android phone, I can tell it to be a master 
> instead of the default as a slave.
> 
> 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.
>>
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