I just discovered how easy it is use tethering to provide Internet access to one of my FreeBSD system... basically you connect up your phone (mine's an Android) using a USB <-> mini-USB cable the sort you charge your phone with. Go into your phone's settings and enable USB tethering. On your FreeBSD box the following msg pops up on the console:-
Armed with this knowledge I'm thinking of getting a cheap phone specifically for tethering, so can anyone suggest what features/spec I need in a phone to provide a reliable Internet connection. Also if I'm using a cable for tethering, I'm assuming the phone is being charged up at the same time...
When you runurndis0 on uhub4
urndis0: <RNDIS Communications Control> on usbus2
ifconfig
a new interface ue0 appears and you can get an IP address assigned using dhclient ue0
. Eventually, after some 'fiddling about' with various settings (yet to be fully understood) you can ping 8.8.8.8
via ue0.Armed with this knowledge I'm thinking of getting a cheap phone specifically for tethering, so can anyone suggest what features/spec I need in a phone to provide a reliable Internet connection. Also if I'm using a cable for tethering, I'm assuming the phone is being charged up at the same time...