Re: USB network cards

Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com> writes:

A lot of modern laptops don't have RJ45 jacks. Ethernet is only supported via USB Ethernet adapters.

Is this just a special case of broader USB support, or is it worth handling separately? If the Linux USB core and the xHCI driver were secure against malicious input, it might make sense to implement the drivers in userspace on the router. Sadly, that isn't the case right now.

I don't immediately see a reason it would need to be handled separately. The router VM shouldn't care whether a network device is USB or not. What special handling do you imagine?