Re: [iPAQ] iPAQ and USB

Ed Gould writes:
> > I wonder how hard it would be to invent a USB server which asked a USB
> > client for all of its commands? It would basically just encapsulate
> > everything, and send it to the client. Then the USB client (an iPAQ,
> > obviously) could master the USB.
>
> It's not that simple. USB does not define most of the protocol between master
> and slave; the clients, in general, do not have a "list services" command.

No, I mean a pure encapsulation, like IP-IP encapsulation. The
"master" would look for an iPAQ, and ask it for data. When the
"master" got the data, it would send it out as a command on the USB.
The return packet would go back to the iPAQ, encapsulated as a write
data packet.

You'd have double the traffic at all times, but it would enable
interesting products, like allowing an Ethernet USB client to command
the bus.

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