FireWire supports this feature well, and it is present on all computers that 
Apple makes. You can implement a network directly over FW wires, as it does 
not care about host/device as much as USB does.

I'm not sure that Linux supports disk mode with Firewire, but you may want to 
check http://www.linux1394.org. It definately supports network over firewire, 
so that you can have a 400Mbps connection.

On Monday 19 January 2004 16:57, Stephen J. Gowdy wrote:
> This is impossible with a cable. USB is a host to device protocol. You
> could have both machines to talk to the same device. There are many such
> "cables" on the market that setup a network between two machines.
>
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Juhana Sadeharju wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > Can Linux fake a USB disk?
> > I.e., if I connect two computers together with USB cable,
> > the other computer should recognize the Linux computer as
> > an external USB disk.
> >
> > The other computer would be MS Windows and nothing can be
> > installed to it. There is no other way to use the Linux disks
> > than to let Linux fake a USB disk.
> >
> > If that is impossible now, then what changes Linux would require?
> > Not all disks or not a disk entirely need to be visible to
> > the other computer: Linux could as well provide a virtual disk
> > in software.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Juhana
> >
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