1.\" Copyright (c) 2010 Michael Knudsen <mk@openbsd.org> 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 8.\" - Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 10.\" - Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above 11.\" copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following 12.\" disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided 13.\" with the distribution. 14.\" 15.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS 16.\" "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT 17.\" LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS 18.\" FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE 19.\" COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 20.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, 21.\" BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; 22.\" LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER 23.\" CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 24.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN 25.\" ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 26.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 27.\" 28.\" $OpenBSD: urndis.4,v 1.15 2013/07/16 16:05:49 schwarze Exp $ 29.\" 30.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/urndis.4 264731 2014-04-21 16:35:19Z gjb $ 31.\" 32.Dd November 16, 2018 33.Dt URNDIS 4 34.Os 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm urndis 37.Nd USB Remote NDIS Ethernet device 38.Sh SYNOPSIS 39To compile this driver into the kernel, 40place the following lines in your 41kernel configuration file: 42.Bd -ragged -offset indent 43.Cd "device ehci" 44.Cd "device uhci" 45.Cd "device ohci" 46.Cd "device xhci" 47.Cd "device usb" 48.Cd "device uether" 49.Cd "device urndis" 50.Ed 51.Pp 52Alternatively, to load the driver as a 53module at boot time, place the following line in 54.Xr loader.conf 5 : 55.Bd -literal -offset indent 56if_urndis_load="YES" 57.Ed 58.Sh DESCRIPTION 59The 60.Nm 61driver provides Ethernet access over Remote NDIS (RNDIS), 62allowing mobile devices such as phones and tablets to provide network access. 63It is often referred to as USB tethering, 64and in most cases must be explicitly enabled on the device. 65.Pp 66.Nm 67should work with any USB RNDIS devices, 68such as those commonly found on Android devices. 69It does not support different media types or options. 70For more information on configuring this device, see 71.Xr ifconfig 8 . 72.Sh SEE ALSO 73.Xr arp 4 , 74.Xr cdce 4 , 75.Xr ipheth 4 , 76.Xr netintro 4 , 77.Xr usb 4 , 78.Xr ifconfig 8 79.Sh HISTORY 80The 81.Nm 82device driver first appeared in 83.Ox 4.7 . 84The first 85.Fx 86release to include it was 87.Fx 9.3 . 88.Sh AUTHORS 89.An -nosplit 90The 91.Nm 92driver was written by 93.An Jonathan Armani Aq Mt armani@openbsd.org , 94.An Michael Knudsen Aq Mt mk@openbsd.org , 95and 96.An Fabien Romano Aq Mt fabien@openbsd.org . 97It was ported to 98.Fx 99by 100.An Hans Petter Selasky Aq Mt hps@FreeBSD.org . 101