> While the referral complaint is pretty silly, this networking thing is bit indicative about the "appliance"/"toy" nature of Android devices. Either there is a

> While the referral complaint is pretty silly, this networking thing is bit indicative about the "appliance"/"toy" nature of Android devices. Either there is an app for something or you can't do it. You can write an app to do something the designers of the system didn't anticipate. That's a mark of a versatile system. > In comparison for example webOS and Maemo did the analogous thing by using mainline usbnet driver from kernel and configuring routing with standard route command etc. This is possible because they did not flinch from exposing the full power of the underlying system for those who want it. I believe that, with root, you can install/load/configure kernel modules (mainline or otherwise) on Android as well. Here's a stackoverflow article talking about creating loadable kernel modules: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6282669/how-do-you-create-a-loadable-kernel-module-for-android http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6282669/how-do-you-create...