usb serial networking ?

rob.rice · 04-30-2007, 11:48 AM

I was looking around in the kernel documention and found usb serial
the readme it sed that 2 termnal devices could be connected through
a usb cable and remote logins could be done through this cable
dose anyone know any thing more than whats in the read me

michaelk · 04-30-2007, 12:14 PM

A USB serial adapter is used just like a regular RS-232 serial port. (ie. COM1 (windows speak or /dev/ttyS0 linux speak). Any of the serial console howtos that can be found googling should work the same. The device ID will probably be /dev/ttyUSB0 or /dev/usb/ttyUSB0.

A USB host to host cable is a special USB cable that is used just like an ethernet crossover cable. You will have a ethernet device ID like usb0 and can assign it an IP address just like any other ethernet adapter.

rob.rice · 04-30-2007, 04:30 PM

thanks I'll look deeper in to it
ok so I would get the same speed out of the plain cable
or more ( the little cicurte in the host cable may have some over head to it )
as the host cable

michaelk · 04-30-2007, 04:55 PM

Typically standard serial ports run at 115,200 bits per second even though it uses USB. I forgot to mention you can configure the serial port for networking use slip. This is like dialup compared to broadband. The host to host USB network cable will run faster.

My I ask what you are trying to accomplish?