Re: USB tethering between FreeBSD and mobile phone (Debian OS)
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 12:00:07 UTC
El día miércoles, noviembre 15, 2023 a las 12:51:59p. m. +0100, Alexander Burke escribió: > Hi Matthias, > > Can you please edit my personal details out of your post? > > Thanks in advance, > Alex I did so as your request. But they are visible in the FreeBSD mailing list and its Internet archives also. matthias > ---------------------------------------- > > Nov 15, 2023 09:44:17 Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>: > > > El día miércoles, noviembre 15, 2023 a las 08:14:24 +0100, Matthias Apitz escribió: > > > >> El día miércoles, noviembre 15, 2023 a las 07:14:53a. m. +0100, Alexander Burke escribió: > >> > >>> Hi Matthias (and anyone who comes across this later), > >>> > >>> The DHCP server should be run on the device capable of acting as an internet gateway (in this case, the phone) or else the setup is backwards from every setup I've come across in 25 years in IT. (In fact, your phone probably already had dhcpd installed for exactly that reason.) > >>> > >>> ... > >> > >> Hi Alexander (and anyone who comes across this later), > >> > >> There is no DHCP server installed in the phone, only a DHCP client: > >> > >> purism@pureos:~$ dpkg -l | grep dhcp > >> ii isc-dhcp-client 4.4.1-2.3+deb11u2 arm64 DHCP client for automatically obtaining an IP address > >> ii isc-dhcp-common 4.4.1-2.3+deb11u2 arm64 common manpages relevant to all of the isc-dhcp packages > >> > >> purism@pureos:~$ apt info isc-dhcp-server > >> Package: isc-dhcp-server > >> Version: 4.4.1-2.3+deb11u2 > >> Priority: optional > >> ... > >> Download-Size: 524 kB > >> APT-Sources: https://repo.pureos.net/pureos byzantium/main arm64 Packages > >> ... > >> > >> i.e. could be downloaded and installed, but it is not. > >> > >> For the reasos that this is not installed and configured in the > >> phone one could read and understand these posting in the Purism's > >> forum: > >> > >> https://forums.puri.sm/t/l5-dhcp-server/21828 > >> > >> I'm not an Debian and NetworkManager expert. It is just a fact, that the > >> phone device sends DHCP requests when carrier comes up. > >> > >> The solution I've configured and documented gives what I was in need: > >> SSH access from the FreeBSD laptop into the phone (to do things there > >> like installations, troubleshooting, readin my mails, etc.). > >> > >> Hope it helps someone in the same need. > >> > >>> > >>> Why swim against the current and make things more complex than they need to be? > >> > >> Because there is no DHCP server installed in the phone. I will copy your > >> (Alexander) public reply from this mailing list into the forum and will > >> ask Purism staff why the things have been setup this ways. > > > > The posting is here: > > > > https://forums.puri.sm/t/usb-tethering-freebsd-laptop-with-l5/21819/3 > > -- > > Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@unixarea.de, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-176-38902045 > > Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub > > > > I am not at war with Russia. Я не воюю с Россией. > > Ich bin nicht im Krieg mit Russland. -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@unixarea.de, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-176-38902045 Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub I am not at war with Russia. Я не воюю с Россией. Ich bin nicht im Krieg mit Russland.