Is USB over ethernet possible

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Mon May 19 20:14:35 UTC 2008


Jonathan Hirschman wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:

>>   It seems to be just
>> another form of abstraction (which isn't wrong - in fact it's the only
>> sane
>> way to handle this sort of thing).  That is, will "lsusb" on the client,
>> show the device?  I think not.
>>   
> 
> Hmm, you said that _any_ such thing was impossible. Perhaps lsusb will
> work just fine, perhaps not. It might be best not to be so absolute.

I said that it's impossible to mount a USB device on one machine and
manipulate it as a USB device on a second.  I still believe that's
impossible, and since you don't actually seem to know what this software
does, I don't see where you're in a position to tell me I'm wrong.
-- 
derek





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