<html><head></head><body>Stories abound of evil kids printing dirty pictures on a friend's printer to get him in trouble thanks to wide open cable networking. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On September 9, 2021 9:56:21 AM CDT, DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On 9/9/21 8:42 AM, Boris Borisov via Ale wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">I'm playing with small system. You can think of it as SoC with LCD<br>and keyboard. So is not much more powerful than average router off<br>the shelf. I'm trying openwrt build for it. The image is bare with<br>only communicating interface usb0 with IP assigned to it.<br><br>Have anyone used the IP over USB thingy. How you physically connect<br>two machines. The only case I can think is phone to computer. But how<br>you would connect two computers.<br></blockquote><br>I never used it, but in the late 1990s, cable modems often were connected via USB-networking to the computer. It was the normal USB-A and fat USB connectors that were used. The lack of firewall was an issue, but it was fun seeing all the CIFS shares for the neighborhood ... er ... so I heard.<hr>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Computers amplify human error<br>Super computers are really cool</body></html>