[lug] USB to USB as serial connection

Nate Duehr nate at natetech.com
Tue Jun 29 16:53:12 MDT 2004


On Tuesday 29 June 2004 13:44, Tkil wrote:

> No, because current USB is not capable of peer-to-peer operation
> (unlike firewire - but most p2p modes for firewire end up just
> implementing IP over it, so...)

I'm not 100% sure this is true.  I have a version of Norton Ghost that will do 
peer-to-peer with a special USB cable between two machines.  

I don't think it's very common to see the cable available in local stores, 
though, and I'm not sure how they implement the protocol.

Nate Duehr, nate at natetech.com



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