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Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

udbp_load="YES"

It requires netgraph(4) to be available. This can be done either by adding options NETGRAPH to your kernel configuration file, or alternatively loading netgraph(4) as a module, either from /boot/loader.conf or from the command line, before the udbp module.

Load the netgraph(4) module and then the udbp driver.

    ngctl mkpeer udbp0: eiface data ether

    ifconfig ngeth0 ether aa:dd:xx:xx:xx

    ifconfig ngeth0 inet 169.254.x.x/16

Create a new Ethernet network interface node and connect its ether hook to the data hook of the udbp driver.

This enables FreeBSD to communicate with a Linux peer (e.g. using the plusb driver). The Linux node should be configured to prefer link-local IPv4 addresses (e.g. using Network Manager in Debian and Red Hat derived distributions).

Whilst both FreeBSD and Linux are able to interoperate by loosely following CDC EEM 1.0 in their behaviour, neither implementation has been expressly designed to follow its specification.

Universal Serial Bus: Communications Class Subclass Specification for Ethernet Emulation Model Devices, Revision 1.0, USB Implementers Forum, Inc., February 2, 2005.

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