[ale] IP over USB

[DJ-Pfulio]

The 1000 base-tx standard does auto-MDIX. Slower connections generally do not, so look for an added "feature" if the connection will be less than 1 Gbps. IME, you'll need a cross-over cable (or tiny adapter for the rj45) to make direct connections on those.

On 9/13/21 10:16 AM, Phil Turmel via Ale wrote:
> 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
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