31.4. USB Tethering
Prev | Chapter 31. Advanced Networking | Next

## 31.4. USB Tethering

Many cellphones provide the option to share their data connection over USB (often called "tethering"). This feature uses either the RNDIS, CDC or a custom Apple® iPhone®/iPad® protocol.

- Android™ devices generally use the urndis(4) driver.

- Apple® devices use the ipheth(4) driver.

- Older devices will often use the cdce(4) driver.

Before attaching a device, load the appropriate driver into the kernel:

    # kldload if_urndis
    # kldload if_cdce
    # kldload if_ipheth

Once the device is attached `ue` `0` will be available for use like a normal network device. Be sure that the “USB tethering” option is enabled on the device.

Prev | Up | Next
31.3. Wireless Networking | Home | 31.5. Bluetooth

All FreeBSD documents are available for download at https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/doc/

Questions that are not answered by the documentation may be sent to <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>.
Send questions about this document to <freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org>.