USB link cable?

[Marcin Dalecki]

Yevmenkin, Maksim wrote:
> Marcin,
>  
>  > Right now I'm trying to connect two boxes by a USB host to host link
>  > cable. On the one side is Linux, where the usbnet driver is nicely
>  > providing an usb0 ethernet interface. On the FreeBSD side I have
>  > found that there is a similar driver called udbp, which has to
>  > be used with netgraph to turn some magic around and make it
>  > appear as if it where an ethernet interface. Let's put it short:
>  > netgraph sucks. The docs are incomprehensible. Seems like a
>  > networking fetishists toy but nothing really usable.
>  
> did you read udbp(4) man page?

Yes I suffered the content of it.

>  
> this will create virtual ng0 network interface, which is different from 
> virtual
> *ethernet* interface. if you need virtual *ethernet* interface you will need
> to use ng_eiface(4) module instead of ng_iface(4), i.e.
>  
> # ngctl mkpeer udbp0: eiface data ether
>  
> this will create virtual ngethX *ethernet* interface.

As I say - netgraph is incomprehensible and cumbersome.
Anyway thanks for the hint I will give it a try.