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cdce
— USB
Communication Device Class Ethernet device
cdce* at uhub?
The cdce
driver provides support for USB
Host-to-Host (aka USB-to-USB) bridges based on the USB Communication Device
Class (CDC) and Ethernet subclass, including the following:
The USB bridge appears as a regular network interface on both sides, transporting Ethernet frames. USB 1.x bridges support speeds of up to 12Mbps, and USB 2.0 speeds of up to 480Mbps. Packets are received and transmitted over separate USB bulk transfer endpoints.
The cdce
driver does not support different
media types or options. For more information on configuring this device, see
ifconfig(8).
arp(4), intro(4), netintro(4), usb(4), hostname.if(5), ifconfig(8)
Universal Serial Bus Class Definitions for Communication Devices, http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/devclass_docs/.
Data sheet Prolific PL-2501 Host-to-Host Bridge/Network Controller.
The cdce
device driver first appeared in
OpenBSD 3.6.
The cdce
driver was written by
Craig Boston
<craig@tobuj.gank.org>
based on the aue(4) driver
written by Bill Paul
<wpaul@windriver.com>
and ported to OpenBSD by Daniel
Hartmeier
<dhartmei@openbsd.org>.
Many USB devices notoriously fail to report their class and interfaces correctly. Undetected products might work flawlessly when their vendor and product IDs are added to the driver manually.
November 13, 2016 | OpenBSD-6.1 |