[SailfishDevel] Question about connecting a Sailfish phone to Ubuntu Linux box

[deloptes]

Sahlan wrote:

> Eli,
> 
> I take the point that in this situation all bets are off, so it looks
> like I'll have to change the i.p. addresses on my network of development
> machines and development VMs. An inconvenience, but at least it's only a
> one-off change,
> 

Is it not  easier to change the IP on the Sailfish phone instead of changing
the addresses on the dev network and/or plug a stupid USB cable?
Do you have an idea how networking works? I have the impression you are
missing some fundamentals like routing for example.

You can not have two gateways in the same work. Therefore set the USB IP to
something else. I give you an example of my use case.
I have one Xperia X for work and one for testing. If both are configured to
use 192.168.2.0/24 (IP .15 and .16 for example) the USB driver is confused.
I can use whichever phone I can plugin first.
But if I setup same IP on different network for example 192.168.2.15 and
192.168.3.15 all is working fine.
This is because the USB driver would provide the GW for each network.

regards