Is it possible to connect 2 FreeBSD machines via USB cable?

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G_Nerc

Hi! I have a USB cable A(male) <---> A(male), can i connect 2 machines with FreeBSD with that cable? In windows that possible.
 
I'm not aware of something similar to fwip(4) for USB. I did find
Code: 
 USB mass storage driver for device-side mode
device          usfs
in /usr/src/conf/NOTES. It suggests you can use one machine as an 'external harddisk' on the other. But unfortunately there's no manpage for it and not a shred of documentation.
 
Greetings,

You might be able to pull it of if you add udbp to your kernel configuration file, and rebuild your kernel. This might provide a "dumb" USB pipe that will permit a primitive network. This route would require you to create an interface for it.
 
@Beeblebrox
Nothing.
What's the matter with
Code: 
device    udbp    # USB Double Bulk Pipe devices
in the kernel configuration :-)
Seriously, I wasn't sure that module would always be created without specifically adding it. :-P
 
@Chris_H: Compiling into kernel vs. kldload:
1. First, with regards to this thread: To solve a problem, "One does not simply compile a kernel" when kldload is available.
2. You can always load modules, but you cannot un-load what's been compiled into a kernel. For full modules list:
$ ls /boot/kernel
3. Monolithic Kernel vs. Modular Kernel.
 
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