Sharing internet over USB

vish · n00b Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 28

I have a windows computer and a gentoo computer..
Was wondering if I can share internet between each other over a USB connection
So one of them could be the server and have my cable modem and the other can share it using a usb cable...

is this possible??
I know two windows computers can share internet over usb

puggy · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2003 9:20 pm Post subject:

Ok. this is really 2 seperate issues I think.
a) You want to set up a network over usb
b) You want to set up one of the machines as a router.

Is that right?

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yucao89 · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2003 9:40 pm Post subject:

He probably wants to make a network out of USB and not making the machine as a router

vish · n00b Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 28

yes exactly...

puggy · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2003 9:56 pm Post subject:

How do you expect the internet to be shared if you don't route it? I'm not sure that that is possible.

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vish · n00b Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 28

No i do..
for example let say i put internet sharing on my winXP computer and
connect my gentoo box to the xp computer using a usb cable..

or i could go the other way..
would this work?

puggy · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2003 10:45 pm Post subject:

I think you'll find that ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) which runs in windows is basically just a very crap router.
Obviously it is easy to set up your gentoo box as a router (and better than the windows box as a router), I don't know about networking over usb though.

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