hi guys.
Searching vastness of the Internet does brink a definite
answer or I failed to find one, so I thought I'll ask fellow
Fedorians.
This needs a special cable and a linux driver for your USB hardware. I think the original
spec was intended to rid with world of serial cables, e.g., when using a 2nd pc as a
terminal for debugging. That didn't work because there are still many older devices like
Ferrups UPS's that outlast half a dozen modern UPS's but use serial ports, so we all
went out and bought USB to serial adapters,
Would anybody know of perhaps has tried, to hook up two
boxes directly via a passive usb 3.x type A cable and have
it as "regular" ethernet connection?
For higher than serial port speeds there are active cables but you need linux drivers.
In many use cases (systems are close to a switch with empty ports or one of the
systems has a spare ethernet port) you are better off with a USB to ethernet adapter
because there are more choices that will work with linux.