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Contact Doug Ambrisko; he used to do this all the time.

-- Terry

Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> 
> Right now I'm trying to connect two boxes by a USB host to host link
> cable. On the one side is Linux, where the usbnet driver is nicely
> providing an usb0 ethernet interface. On the FreeBSD side I have
> found that there is a similar driver called udbp, which has to
> be used with netgraph to turn some magic around and make it
> appear as if it where an ethernet interface. Let's put it short:
> netgraph sucks. The docs are incomprehensible. Seems like a
> networking fetishists toy but nothing really usable.
> So I have to ask if anybody ever got such a link running?
> Or would it just be easier to turn udbp.c in to if_udbp.c and
> forget about the reset?