Sync over "ethernet" only (actually over USB)

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Sync over “ethernet” only (actually over USB but the connection show up as an “ethernet connection” on Ubuntu

Hello,

I am VNC’ing into my laptop from the phone. Somewhat unusually I’m using a USB cable for the connection.

I have syncthing running on the phone and on the laptop.

I want to set sync to local only as I have to pay for Internet per MB. I. e. I don’t want syncthing to sync over internet, just over the USB cable.

Is there a way to do this?

Syncthing_user

Samsung Galaxy 5

Laptop running Ubuntu 15.10

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If the connection between the two devices shows up as a network card or something similar you can block syncthing to go on “internet” using a firewall so to restrict it to be able to reach only the IP of the other device.

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Or set device addresses manually, or use device allowed IP ranges, or disable global discovery, all depending on what your setup actually looks like…