USB/IP Project

#1

Post by mef » Mon, Oct 12, 2015, 10:42 PM UTC

USB/IP Project
usbip.sourceforge.net

Re: USB/IP Project

#2

Post by giancarlostoro » Mon, Oct 12, 2015, 11:14 PM UTC

I hate to say it but sourceforge feels like the new "Meg" these days, even uBlock Origin tries to block going to sourceforge. Looks like an interesting project though. I love the support of ReactOS, but I wonder if the project is still active at all? The featured last bit of news is from 2011.

Re: USB/IP Project

#3

Post by mschuster91 » Mon, Oct 12, 2015, 11:15 PM UTC

Hmm I appreciate more work in this field, especially Windoze compatibility, but... as said in Star Wars: Clone Wars... "Fifty tried, fifty died".

USBoIP is a minefield.

Re: USB/IP Project

#4

Post by tobik » Mon, Oct 12, 2015, 11:18 PM UTC

This is also part of the mainline Linux kernel now (look under drivers/usb/usbip/ and tools/usb/usbip/).

Re: USB/IP Project

#5

Post by halosghost » Mon, Oct 12, 2015, 11:21 PM UTC

On the one hand, this looks incredibly cool. On the other hand, I actually find it a bit worrying. With things like BadUSB[1] still out there, I would be worried about anything that gives USB devices more wide reach or higher privileges.

That this project aims to offer "full functionality" of the device, afaik, means it is likely doing exactly the kind of thing that I find worrying. Can anyone talk about this a little more in-depth?

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuruzFqMgIw

Re: USB/IP Project

#6

Post by codezero » Mon, Oct 12, 2015, 11:23 PM UTC

giancarlostoro wrote: post #2

I hate to say it but sourceforge feels like the new "Meg" these days, even uBlock Origin tries to block going to sourceforge. Looks like an interesting project though. I love the support of ReactOS, but I wonder if the project is still active at all? The featured last bit of news is from 2011.

Agreed, they have done a really solid job of eroding trust over the years.

Re: USB/IP Project

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Post by pg_is_a_butt » Mon, Oct 12, 2015, 11:26 PM UTC

seems the network latency would break the realtime expectations of high data rate USB 3.0 hardware on the USB bus.

and using a still image from a webcam seems like the worst use case... there are much better protocols for serving video streams.

Re: USB/IP Project

#8

Post by monochromatic » Mon, Oct 12, 2015, 11:31 PM UTC

giancarlostoro wrote: post #2

I hate to say it but sourceforge feels like the new "Meg" these days, even uBlock Origin tries to block going to sourceforge. Looks like an interesting project though. I love the support of ReactOS, but I wonder if the project is still active at all? The featured last bit of news is from 2011.

I dunno what Meg is, but I did chuckle when uBlock Origin blocked SF. Good for them.

Re: USB/IP Project

#9

Post by brobinson » Mon, Oct 12, 2015, 11:35 PM UTC

giancarlostoro wrote: post #2

I hate to say it but sourceforge feels like the new "Meg" these days, even uBlock Origin tries to block going to sourceforge. Looks like an interesting project though. I love the support of ReactOS, but I wonder if the project is still active at all? The featured last bit of news is from 2011.

Was going to post about this but saw that you already had: http://i.imgur.com/KBCmcyb.png

Re: USB/IP Project

#10

Post by roel_v » Mon, Oct 12, 2015, 11:36 PM UTC

Just buy one of these: http://www.amazon.com/Silex-SX-DS-4000U2-Print-Server-800MHz... .

Works awesome, lets you buy the cheap non-workgroup version of pretty much everything (printer, scanner, label printer, ...) and still hook it up to a central server.

I have a Fujitsu ScanSnap ix500 hooked up this way, which scans directly to Dropbox. Put the scanner anywhere where it's convenient to access, put paper in it, press scan button, by the time you walk back to your desk it's on the dropbox. Order of magnitude improvement over other setups.