Krautkramer, John wrote:
Is it true you can run Ethernet over USB between 2 machines?
With an adapter, you can run ethernet over usb in general.
I have 2 machines running CentOS 5.0 and a simple type A male to A male
cable. I don’t see in the network setup gui how to set it up. Is there a
particular device I should select? What I see relating to USB is:
KL4USB101 USB Ethernet driver
Pegasus/Pegasus II USB Ethernet driver
USB CDC Ethernet driver
These appear to be some kind of hardware other than a cable.
lsmod gives me “usbnet 20041 0” so I believe this means the kernel
module is there.
There are usb<->ethernet adapters like these:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=589
that you could connect through a switch or back to back with a crossover
cable. I don't know if there are Linux drivers for all chipsets but I've
used a few and they were recognized.
Unlike firewire, you can't directly connect 2 usb host adapters,
although since windows vista now includes a utility to migrate items
from an old machine over usb (like apple has always done over firewire)
there are an assortment of usb<->usb adapter cables like:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2791077&CatId=77
but I don't know if Linux knows anything about them.
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Les Mikesell
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