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USB tether (urndis(4)) not working (self.openbsd)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by wgs to c/openbsd
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Hey everyone,

I decided after many year to try again to slap OpenBSD on my old Acer Aspire one. The Wifi adapter is not supported, but I was thinking about using my phone to get network connectivity out of it. Unfortunately I'm hitting a strange behavior: ifconfig urndis0 autoconf works as expected, and I get an IP over DHCP. Ping and DNS resolution work as expected, but when I try any TCP connection, the connectivity simply stops working, and I cannot even ping the gateway anymore. dmesg doesn't say anything about it.

Has anyone encountered this already ?

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[โ€“] otl 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hm... You could try tcpdump(8), e.g. tcpdump -i urndis0; there might be some hints there as you do a ping, then DNS lookup, then try to establish a TCP connection.

If it's just TCP, it would be interesting to see if routing all traffic through a WireGuard tunnel with wg(4) prevents the connection to the gateway from falling over. That's not really a solution but it could be an interesting test.

Finally, from ifconfig(8), it looks like you can enable per-driver debug mode. I think ifconfig urndis0 debug will enable it.

[โ€“] wgs 2 points 2 years ago

I'll try the debug command for ifconfig eventually. I took the hardest path to fix this issue however as I scrapped a supported wireless card from another computer and installed it on the netbook. Now it has wifi natively hehe. Thanks for your help!