Re: USB point to point computer communications link

2015-04-13 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 12:26 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: > Customer Reviews > 751 > 4.3 out of 5 stars >5 star > > 497 >

Re: USB point to point computer communications link

2015-03-27 Thread Yasha Karant
Customer Reviews 751 4.3 out of 5 stars 5 star 497

Re: USB point to point computer communications link

2015-03-27 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Kevin K wrote: > It isn’t so much the USB. USB as a design is a master/slave relationship. > So you cannot connect 2 normal computers together with an USB cable. It > doesn’t matter what you are wanting to do with it. Use two USB ethernet ports. They're cheap

Re: USB point to point computer communications link

2015-03-27 Thread Kevin K
It isn’t so much the USB. USB as a design is a master/slave relationship. So you cannot connect 2 normal computers together with an USB cable. It doesn’t matter what you are wanting to do with it. There have been special USB cables in the past with some smarts in the middle so each computer

Re: USB point to point computer communications link

2015-03-27 Thread Yasha Karant
The university system at which I am tenured has limited practical respect for Faculty but much lipservice to the concept -- that is the reality. I simply was asking if such a utility existed within EL or Linux in general -- it evidently does not. UUCP does not easily work over USB although at

Re: USB point to point computer communications link

2015-03-27 Thread Yasha Karant
That second NIC appears to be my only option. A colleague down the hall does exactly that. If I did attempt NAT, as was suggested, unless the device actually attached to the RJ-45 802.3 LAN port in the wall has the exact same MAC address, etc., as the NIC on my workstation, the local IT gesta

Re: USB point to point computer communications link

2015-03-27 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
Yasha, this is getting tiresome - your continuing use of this mailing list to obtain free technical support for (imho) bizarre problems or wishes - most of them complete with pity pledges "please help me, our IT nazi would give me no soup" (as in Soup Nazi, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soup_Na

Re: USB point to point computer communications link

2015-03-27 Thread Ken Teh
I was about to suggest Mark's point about the second nic in the desktop. It seems to me the easiest and most versatile. And a small switch to connect the laptop and the desktop (on the second nic). No cross-over cable. A small disjoint lan with hard-wired addresses in /etc/hosts. You can ad

Re: USB point to point computer communications link

2015-03-27 Thread Mark Stodola
On 03/26/2015 06:51 PM, Kevin K wrote: On Mar 26, 2015, at 6:37 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: My desktop workstation (currently X86-64 SL 7) has only one 802.3 physical port. At my university, the IT gestapo will not allow the use of a local 802.3 repeater (switch or hub) but requires a valid NIC

Re: USB point to point computer communications link

2015-03-26 Thread Kevin K
> On Mar 26, 2015, at 6:37 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > > My desktop workstation (currently X86-64 SL 7) has only one 802.3 physical > port. At my university, the IT gestapo will not allow the use of a local > 802.3 repeater (switch or hub) but requires a valid NIC MAC address and will > disconn

USB point to point computer communications link

2015-03-26 Thread Yasha Karant
My desktop workstation (currently X86-64 SL 7) has only one 802.3 physical port. At my university, the IT gestapo will not allow the use of a local 802.3 repeater (switch or hub) but requires a valid NIC MAC address and will disconnect any changes. I have no 802.11 WNIC on my desktop workstat