[ale] IP over USB

[Phil Turmel]

Yes, Ethernet.  All of the cheap USB3 ethernet devices I have support 
auto-MDIX, so no, crossover is likely not required.

If you do no setup, most distros will automatically recognize the 
adapter and attempt DHCP, falling back to Link-Local IPv4 addresses. 
With the two machines side by side, that is probably sufficient.

I would define static IPs w/o gateway in a netplan yaml file, matching 
on the Mac ID of the adapter.  That would make SSH happier (known hosts 
entries).  (I like Ubuntu's netplan.io configuraton tool.)

On 9/12/21 3:16 PM, Steve Litt via Ale wrote:
> 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