On 06/18/2018 02:44 AM, Russell Senior challenged me saying:
One important thing to bear in mind, no one here seems to know
the answer to your question (perhaps because we don't really
know what your question is).
The right, free-open-source choice here is to face and
slay the dragon yourself, and then report back.
I'll accept the challenge.
This is a "back of the napkin" tentative outline.
Suggestions for additional sub-topics welcome.
This is the largest writing assignment I've tackled since the chairman
of of the university's Freshman English Program [Fall 1961] declared my
composition skills "Hopeless!" ;/
[Off-list comments by composition instructors welcome]
Working Title
_USB Master to USB Master Networking [Dragon Slaying 101]_
WEB References
[see "Re: [PLUG] [OT ? ?? ???] Linux and computer literacy" 06/18/2018]
[http://lists.pdxlinux.org/pipermail/plug/2018-June/089466.html]
[adding additional references?]
How does Linux see a "USB Master to USB Master" Cable
[Expand to give examples and what the output tells us]
[Collect & organize info from Plug and debian-user posts]
Issued as root
ifconfig -a
/bin/hostname
dmesg
lsusb -v | less
lsusb -t | less
lsusb
lsusb -v > /home/richard/Desktop/...
Issued as user
locale -a
ip link show
ip addr
ip link
How to assign IPV4 addresses to each end of cable
Automating IPV4 assignments
Application level machine-machine questions/answers
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