Re: USB over IP suport in Wireshak, useful?

On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 15:28 +1100, ronnie sahlberg wrote:
> On 2/13/07, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 12:02:57PM +1100, ronnie sahlberg wrote:
> > > On 2/13/07, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:59:46PM +0000, Phil Endecott wrote:
> > > >> > Would it be helpful for linux usb device driver developers to have a
> > > >> > wireshark dissector that could capture and show the USB
> > > >> > data passed between one such windows client and a windows server for
> > > >> > USB over IP?
> > > >
> > > >What devices have USB data travelling over IP?
> > >
> > > http://www.fabulatech.com/usb-over-network.html
> > > http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/technology-and-science/share-usb-devices-over-ip-network.asp
> > > http://www.digi.com/pdf/prd_usb_anywhereusb.pdf
> > >
> > > There seems to be a pretty large number of different implementations
> > > around for windows to extend the USB bus across a TCP/IP network.
> >
> > As it's just software (with the exception of the digi devices), they are
> > free to create whatever they want as a protocol.
> >
> > I suggest that if someone really wants this kind of feature in Linux,
> 
> My suggestion was not to implement support for those products or
> features in linux.
> My suggestion was an offer to provide a tool to collect data on how a
> windows driver talks to a device plugged into a windows box   so that
> linux driver developers could study how and what data is exchanged
> between driver and device during initialization and management of said
> device.
> 
> 
> Please let me try again:
> 
> Assume very exotic USB device X exists.
> Assume it would be desireable to be able to use this device with Linux.
> Assume that unfortunately there exists no documentation on how to
> initialize or drive device X. This makes it very difficult to write a
> driver for Linux for this device.
> Assume that only drivers and applications exist for windows to utilize
> this device.

Could go the route of using a virtual machine running Windows that has
usb support.  Most of the vm environments, like vmware, go through
usbfs.  That traffic can be shown through libpcap -> wireshark thanks to
Paolo's work.


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