From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 21 13:36:09 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AFBC106566B for ; Mon, 21 May 2012 13:36:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from kabab.cs.huji.ac.il (kabab.cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.84]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B34C8FC0A for ; Mon, 21 May 2012 13:36:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pampa.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.80.32]) by kabab.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp id 1SWSmN-000FgV-8k; Mon, 21 May 2012 16:36:07 +0300 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.3 To: Daniel Grech In-reply-to: References: <4FBA25DE.4050500@uffe.org> Comments: In-reply-to Daniel Grech message dated "Mon, 21 May 2012 14:36:22 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 16:36:07 +0300 From: Daniel Braniss Message-ID: Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, Uffe Jakobsen Subject: Re: USB over IP X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 13:36:09 -0000 > --047d7b10ce794d5a1004c08b261e > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > something similar is being done in the latest versions of qemu. There is a > usb redirection module which is in the form of a client/server architecture > where USB packets are sent over IP. These two modules communicate with > eachother through a protocol developed specifically for the redirection of > USB devices over IP so if I were you I would have a look at the qemu code > for some ideas. do you know if there is a description of the protocol (rfc?) like there is for iscsi, or ata ip? there is alos the usbip project for linux, maybe it can be ported ... cheers, danny