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adrian_btoday at 5:58 PM1 replyview on HN

Unfortunately, USB does not work like Firewire, where this was possible.

USB 4, i.e. Thunderbolt, allows the emulation of network interfaces if you interconnect the USB Type C ports with a cable, but here you have USB 3, so this does not work.

On USB 3 you could interconnect 2 ports only if one of them implemented the On-the-Go specification, so it could work as either a peripheral port or a host port. Here this also does not work. On a system where this had been allowed by the hardware, it is likely that you would have needed to write yourself a device driver that emulates a network interface, because I am not aware of an already existing one, unlike for USB 4.


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zokiertoday at 6:17 PM

> USB 4, i.e. Thunderbolt

USB4 and TB are different things (confusingly enough)

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