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USB to USB communication?



On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:03 PM, R. Luoma <nobluspam5476-MTb9uo0rH9eJIAd+swBSYQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Has anyone tried to hook up communications between
> two computers using the USB ports?
>
> If so, what would be the procedure under linux?

Given how cheap USB-to-Ethernet dongles are now, you might just
consider two of them
and an Ethernet cross-over cable to connect them together.   You would
still need some way to
manually or automatically configure the IP addresses.  I know that
zeroconf IP is available
for Linux, but I haven't played with it much myself....

Bill Bogstad






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