[ale] IP over USB

[Steve Litt]

Thanks Phil,

1) I assume by "patch cord" you mean "ethernet cable", right?

2) Must it be a crossover cable?

3) How do you set up the ip address and other networking on the two
   adapters?

Thanks,

SteveT


Phil Turmel via Ale said on Thu, 9 Sep 2021 17:23:29 -0400

>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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