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Date:      Mon, 22 Dec 2003 16:05:03 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: USB link cables.
Message-ID:  <200312221605.03196.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <16358.28260.695219.464322@canoe.dclg.ca>
References:  <16358.28260.695219.464322@canoe.dclg.ca>

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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 :)

-- 
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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are so many of them to choose from."
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