ip networking over USB

Hello

a long time ago I have had a urgent need to perform ip networking ove
parallel cable (data recovery on a laptop without ethernet network
interface) this worked perfectly and although time taken was desperately
long, I succeeded in recovering almost all lost data.

Today for some other reasons i need to recover data from a PC with broken
eth interface but on which several usb ports are still free and I wonder if
usb ip networking is possible over a pc to pc usb cable

Thanks for infos..

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 10:30:58 +0200, HelloMan wrote:

> Hello
>
> a long time ago I have had a urgent need to perform ip networking ove
> parallel cable (data recovery on a laptop without ethernet network
> interface) this worked perfectly and although time taken was desperately
> long, I succeeded in recovering almost all lost data.
>
> Today for some other reasons i need to recover data from a PC with broken
> eth interface but on which several usb ports are still free and I wonder if
> usb ip networking is possible over a pc to pc usb cable
>
> Thanks for infos..

There is another solution. I have a netgear FA120 USB ethernet adapter
running on my mini-itx since the onboard nic died. You need the
usbnet kernel module. I bought the adapter at OfficeMax for around $20-$30.

HelloMan wrote:

> Today for some other reasons i need to recover data from a PC with
> broken
> eth interface but on which several usb ports are still free and I wonder
> if usb ip networking is possible over a pc to pc usb cable

You can do this with a USB host-to-host cable (aka USB link cable) which is
actually more than just a cable as it contains a bridge controller but make
sure you get one supported by usbnet.

http://www.linux-usb.org/usbnet/index.html#t-host