Hi, I am new to this list so please take pity on me. I have searched the
archives and the web and not found a solution to my problem.
I have a GoldX host-to-host USB network cable that I have been using to
connect two Win2k boxes (my laptop and a desktop at a client site where I
am not allowed to connect to their real network) together for file
sharing. I have also made it work quite easily using usbnet to connect the
same laptop (this time under Linux 2.4 - it is a dual-boot setup) to my
home server (also running Linux 2.4). What I cannot seem to do is get it
working between my laptop (Linux 2.4) and the client desktop (Win2k). If I
can get this working can probably do away with Win2k altogether, so I
really want it to work!
For the Linux<>Linux setup, it seems to prefer the pointopoint option:
ifconfig usb0 192.168.237.1 pointopoint 192.168.237.2 (Laptop)
ifconfig usb0 192.168.237.2 pointopoint 192.168.237.1 (Server)
But neither this nor the more vanilla configuration (i.e. no pointopoint)
seems to work for Linux <> Win2k. The interfaces come up on each end, and
I don't see any errors, but I don't see any traffic either. Arps do not
complete and ping just returns "Destination host unreachable". On the
Linux side I see:
usb.c: USB new device connect on bus2/2, assigned device number 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x67b/0x1) is not claimed by any active
driver
usb.c: registered new driver usbnet
divert: allocating divert_blk for usb0
usb0: register usbnet 002/002, Prolific PL-2301/PL-2302
Of course Windows tells me nothing, except that the connection shows
Active.
My kernel version is 2.4.18-14 on all my Linux boxes.
One thing that occurs to me is that, when I installed the driver software
on the Win2k machine, it asked me which side will be the bridge (I think
that was the question). Not wanting traffic to leak into the client
network, I installed the bridge code on the laptop. I don't know if this
has any impact on what I am trying to do.
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Regards,
Peter Farr
Consulting Principal
LPI Solutions
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