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In message <200312221605.03196.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, "Daniel O'Connor" wrote:
>On Monday 22 December 2003 14:39, David Gilbert wrote:
>> Has anyone looked into supporting USB link cables?  I see a number of
>> these on eBay ... they appear to have two usb host connectors and some
>> small bit of electronics (by the description).  Are these propriatary
>> ... or is there some sensible way this would work?
>
>There's a linux driver for some models.
>http://www.linux-usb.org/usbnet/
>
>If it's FreeBSD to FreeBSD and they both have firewire you could use if_fwe 
>(which is nonstandard unfortunately).
>
>Of course there's also ethernet :)

man udbp(4).