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document updated 16 years ago, on Mar 18, 2008
http://usbip.sourceforge.net/

It's been a dream of mine to get something like this working to see if we could do a
fully-software-based KVM-sans-video-over-network.


The code right now is pre-alpha ("USB/IP is stable ?  No. It is still at a *very* early development
stage."), but it'd be nice to work on some of this.



ALSO...  once you're able to route USB packets around to different places, you can start to have
different userland KVM's (eg. you can write code that tries to disconnect/reconnect specific models
of mice better).  Or write new device-specific USB-perhipheral-sharing code.  Or a device-specific
auto-switcher (eg. when you start printing from one computer, it moves the printer over to that
computer exclusively)  Or write a massive router that allows you to move a device around between
lots of different computers.  Or whatnot.