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Re: D-Link's Shareport USB Utility and openwebnet



Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In October 2009, I posted an article about D-Link's Shareport USB
> Utility (see e.g.
> http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@lists.debian.org/msg557390.html)
> to linux.debian.user. Do you remember? I posted to
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9513066#post9513066 too.
>
> I've tried analyzing packets with Wireshark, under Windows, to find how
> my D-Link DIR-635 actually communicates with the computer to share some
> USB peripheral through the network, thanks to the SharePort utility
> (which is only available under Windows). This did bring much info, and,
> as a result, I can reasonably assume that OpenWebNet is the related
> router's Shareport counterpart. Here are some traces:
>
>     * router->computer: openwebnet (20005) > tr-rsrb-port [ACK] (1996)
>     * router->computer: openwebnet (20005) > tr-rsrb-port [PSH, ACK] (1996)
>     * computer->router: tr-rsrb-port (1996) > openwebnet [PSH, ACK] (20005)
>
> That is, D-Link's SharePort utility apparently uses the openwebnet
> protocol. Do you have any idea about how it could use it? I checked the
> syntax, but I can't understand the link with the USB peripherals.
>
> Thanks.
>
>   

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