BBB uses USB multi_g driver which supplies ethernet and USB mass storage that exports the built in flash storage. You can learn more about how this works from my DEFCON 23 talk "1 device to pwn them all". Just Google it for video and slides.
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017, 4:48 AM Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote: > vreg <[email protected]> wrote: > > [-- multipart/alternative, encoding 7bit, 48 lines --] > > > > [-- text/plain, encoding 7bit, charset: UTF-8, 15 lines --] > > > > Hi, > > > > How does the BBB manage to allow ssh-ing using just the USB cable and a > > fixed IP address? I have a RPi too and I need an Ethernet cable and to > know > > the IP address everytime in order to SSH into it... > > > You need a decent DHCP server on your network! :-) > > I have lots (well quite a few) devices on my home network, e.g. family > members computers (3), a printer, a DECT phone base station, a RPi, > sometimes a BBB, etc. > > Most modern ADSL routers sadly don't handle the system's names > properly (or at all actually). So I run my own DHCP server on the RPi > (it' called dnsmasq) and that *does* handle names properly. Since the > dnsmasq on the RPi also acts as a local DNS server it can find all my > systems by name with no extra effort on my part. > > Once you have more than one or two systems it's a real pain not having > a local naming service. > > -- > Chris Green > ยท > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/mhn5nd-qe2.ln1%40esprimo.zbmc.eu > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CANt-8Me%3DQkonLGUy4tT_MixWweOd9i8YefpC0qKzrXTBUigHVQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
