netdev - Re: [PATCH] plusb.c patched to support Belkin F5U258 USB host-to-host cable

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Date:	Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:56:20 +0200
From:	"Damien Thébault" <damien.thebault@...il.com>
To:	"David Brownell" <david-b@...bell.net>
Cc:	tony_gibbs <Tony_Gibbs@...puserve.com>,
	"NETDEV mailing list" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Linux USB mailing list" <majordomo@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] plusb.c patched to support Belkin F5U258 USB host-to-host cable

Hello,

Sorry to hijack this thread, but today I bought one host-to-host USB
cable, and it's a Belkin F5U258.

On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 22:41, David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net> wrote:
> Here's a patch with cleanups and without various encoding bugs.
> Can you verify it still works?

I applied it against my linux 2.6.26 tree, enabled plugged the two
ends into two ports of my computer, used "ip l set usb0 up" and "ip l
set usb1 up", started an "arping -I usb0 <some address>" and "tcpdump
-i usb1", and I see packets.
Then I changed the mac address of usb1, let ipv6 choose a link-local
address and pinged it from usb0, it's working too.
I didn't try some more advanced test as I only have one computer at
the moment (but it should be possible to do something with iptables, I
did it once)

> When you test this, please enable CONFIG_USB_DEBUG and let us know
> if those the host software still needs to do that reset ... or at
> least, whether the diagnostic appears.

The attached file is the dmesg output, I see timeouts when the
interface is set to up (at 895 and 985), but nothing else, is this ok?
-- 
Damien Thebault

View attachment "dmesg.log" of type "text/x-log" (4003 bytes)