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Windows-only, unable to share a network connection? Apple already allows TCP/IP between 2 systems: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/ip-thunderbolt-conn

Windows-only, unable to share a network connection? Apple already allows TCP/IP between 2 systems: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/ip-thunderbolt-connect-mac-computers-mchld53dd2f5/mac https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/ip-thunderbolt-conn... And there is this, too: https://hackaday.com/2024/01/16/50-10gbps-mesh-network-uses-usb4/ https://hackaday.com/2024/01/16/50-10gbps-mesh-network-uses-... I was hoping for something like the Craylink cable, where connecting 2 Origin 200s gave you a single system with a single system image (1 kernel) across the two. "One of the revolutionary features of Origin 200 is CrayLink™ Interconnect, which can connect two towers to form a large, four-CPU shared-memory system that can operate as a single system or as a high-availability cluster. By linking Origin 200 towers via CrayLink Interconnect, both CPU and I/O performance are doubled, thus scaling in all dimensions. " ( from https://www.siliconbunny.com/data_sheets/o200.pdf https://www.siliconbunny.com/data_sheets/o200.pdf )

zamadatix 2y ago
The networking portion already happens without this app.
- filoleg 2y ago
  Do you mind elaborating? I am not disagreeing with you, but are you saying that I can connect two Windows laptops usung thunderbolt and natively create a local network between them that lets me seamlessly transfer files between them and share the file system+internet access? I tried googling, and all I found was a bunch of reddit posts and random forum threads where people were trying to do exactly that, but I couldn’t find any confirmation that it would work. And for those users who were proposing workarounds, those required a bunch of steps that didn’t seem to work for users who asked the original question either.
  - nullindividual 2y ago
    You can create a standard TCP/IP network between two machines using TB, correct. They're treated like any other network adapter, with any other network adapter capability. How you want to define 'difficult' with regards to file sharing or internet sharing, I'll leave up to the most familiar users of each OS who can argue which is best.
    - filoleg 2y ago
      Ah, then I will just assume those reddit and online posts talking about it were either spouting outdated info or were just confused. I would’ve tried it myself, but my last Windows machine was given away last year (voluntarily by me, nothing tragic happened), and I currently have no access to one. Because if it is as you say (which I am much more inclined to believe than random reddit comments from a few years ago tbh), then yeah, it feels pretty much like parity to the macOS experience with this, minor differences aside (that aren’t really even worth mentioning as points in favor of one OS or the other).
      - nullindividual 2y ago
        See this Intel document from 2014: https://www.thunderbolttechnology.net/sites/default/files/Thunderbolt%e2%84%a2%20Networking%20Bridging%20and%20Routing%20Instructional%20White%20Paper.pdf https://www.thunderbolttechnology.net/sites/default/files/Th...
Rebelgecko 2y ago
Sadly Apple stopped supporting Target Display Mode on their new machines around a decade ago. It was a super cool feature
yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
If "Windows-only" is a problem (which I agree with), then surely "Darwin-only" is at least as bad.

zamadatix 2y ago

The networking portion already happens without this app.

filoleg 2y ago
Do you mind elaborating? I am not disagreeing with you, but are you saying that I can connect two Windows laptops usung thunderbolt and natively create a local network between them that lets me seamlessly transfer files between them and share the file system+internet access? I tried googling, and all I found was a bunch of reddit posts and random forum threads where people were trying to do exactly that, but I couldn’t find any confirmation that it would work. And for those users who were proposing workarounds, those required a bunch of steps that didn’t seem to work for users who asked the original question either.
- nullindividual 2y ago
  You can create a standard TCP/IP network between two machines using TB, correct. They're treated like any other network adapter, with any other network adapter capability. How you want to define 'difficult' with regards to file sharing or internet sharing, I'll leave up to the most familiar users of each OS who can argue which is best.
  - filoleg 2y ago
    Ah, then I will just assume those reddit and online posts talking about it were either spouting outdated info or were just confused. I would’ve tried it myself, but my last Windows machine was given away last year (voluntarily by me, nothing tragic happened), and I currently have no access to one. Because if it is as you say (which I am much more inclined to believe than random reddit comments from a few years ago tbh), then yeah, it feels pretty much like parity to the macOS experience with this, minor differences aside (that aren’t really even worth mentioning as points in favor of one OS or the other).
    - nullindividual 2y ago
      See this Intel document from 2014: https://www.thunderbolttechnology.net/sites/default/files/Thunderbolt%e2%84%a2%20Networking%20Bridging%20and%20Routing%20Instructional%20White%20Paper.pdf https://www.thunderbolttechnology.net/sites/default/files/Th...

Rebelgecko 2y ago

Sadly Apple stopped supporting Target Display Mode on their new machines around a decade ago. It was a super cool feature

yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago

If "Windows-only" is a problem (which I agree with), then surely "Darwin-only" is at least as bad.