USB tethering: FreeBSD laptop with L5

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I removed with the nm-connection-editor what I configured with the name “usb0” and did on cmd line from the terminal app:

purism@pureos:~$ nmcli connection add type ethernet ifname usb0 ipv4.method shared con-name local

purism@pureos:~$ nmcli device
DEVICE         TYPE      STATE         CONNECTION 
usb0           ethernet  connected     local      
wlan0          wifi      connected     tarara     
p2p-dev-wlan0  wifi-p2p  disconnected  --         
lo             loopback  unmanaged     --         
purism@pureos:~$ ip -o addr show usb0
2: usb0    inet 10.42.0.1/24 brd 10.42.0.255 scope global noprefixroute usb0\       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: usb0    inet6 fe80::f33f:f4d6:688f:9f8d/64 scope link noprefixroute \       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

On the laptop I used the devd to start on plugin of the cable dhclient ue0 and this gets an IP addr from the L5:

# dhclient ue0
DHCPREQUEST on ue0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 10.42.0.1
bound to 10.42.0.28 -- renewal in 1800 seconds.

and SSH to purism@10.42.0.1 is fine too.

Thanks for the hints, @dos

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