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 February 22, 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 urndis" 49.Ed 50.Pp 51Alternatively, to load the driver as a 52module at boot time, place the following line in 53.Xr loader.conf 5 : 54.Bd -literal -offset indent 55if_urndis_load="YES" 56.Ed 57.Sh DESCRIPTION 58The 59.Nm 60driver provides Ethernet access over Remote NDIS (RNDIS), 61allowing mobile devices such as phones and tablets to provide network access. 62It is often referred to as USB tethering, 63and in most cases must be explicitly enabled on the device. 64.Pp 65.Nm 66should work with any USB RNDIS devices, 67such as those commonly found on Android devices. 68It does not support different media types or options. 69For more information on configuring this device, see 70.Xr ifconfig 8 . 71.Sh SEE ALSO 72.Xr arp 4 , 73.Xr cdce 4 , 74.Xr ipheth 4 , 75.Xr netintro 4 , 76.Xr usb 4 , 77.Xr ifconfig 8 78.Sh HISTORY 79The 80.Nm 81device driver first appeared in 82.Ox 4.7 . 83The first 84.Fx 85release to include it was 86.Fx 9.3 . 87.Sh AUTHORS 88.An -nosplit 89The 90.Nm 91driver was written by 92.An Jonathan Armani Aq Mt armani@openbsd.org , 93.An Michael Knudsen Aq Mt mk@openbsd.org , 94and 95.An Fabien Romano Aq Mt fabien@openbsd.org . 96It was ported to 97.Fx 98by 99.An Hans Petter Selasky Aq Mt hps@FreeBSD.org . 100