The USB device (mass storage drive, authentication key, smartphone, etc.) may be plugged in only to the host system, and other clients can connect to the host and access the device as if it was connected directly to the client system. USB Network Gate makes it easy to share USB devices over Network (LAN, WAN, Internet), without having to physically plug them into the respective devices. For example, if you have USB login configured in multiple computers and use one USB Key to log in to all the systems, its constant plugging and unplugging might eventually damage both the USB device and the port. But if you have multiple computers, sharing the same USB device between all of them can become rather inconvenient. (here&now: get rid of the eth port) We are passing little data volume over ssh.From mass storage to internet dongles, USB serves as the ultimate plug and play interface supporting a wide range of applications. The main goal is to activate 'ETH over USB' for a simple trick, in order to get rid of obsolete periphery in the future. (and hopefully get someone on board that has relevant experience with the linux kernel) (We will modify and play around with the kernels in the future, I just finished my last course of my ITCP School, I just picked up Programming at University and I will very probably go deeper into Kernels in the near future)įor now I only need to change this one thing and I will surely work on kernels later on my path. 1 week and I think the solution is something like this:Īnd a lot more. I already went through a decent amount of research for aprox. Metaphoricallly speaking: we need to be able to transform a prototype airplane into a super jet, without ever landing. Optimally we would never need to reinstall an image /only reboot a mashine and do meaningful changes on the kernel over ssh.

We are now developing a network of mashines and are thinking ahead, doing some planning, to reduce our workload in the future and for avoiding the need to reinstall all the OSes on the whole network. My question: is it possible to modify the linux kernel without compiling a whole image from scratch. (currently 1master & 10servers) we need to use usb connections for networking functionalities.

I need to modify the kernel to enable the USB networking ability for my network of development boards.

Usb network gate activator