USB Network Interface Connection Issues with Raspberry Pi OS & VirtualHere Server

Hello!

I am a ham radio operator. I have a Motorola repeater that I need to manage remotely.

When connecting the repeater to a computer (Raspberry Pi) via USB (the only way to connect it), it presents itself to the operating system as a network interface card. Most other repeaters would present themselves as a serial interface. Motorola is special. :-)

Unfortunately, the host running VirtualHere Server becomes a multi-homed machine since it has both the Ethernet interface and the network interface card the repeater presents connected simultaneously.

As a result, I lose network connectivity to the host as the network stack assigns equal priority to the network interfaces.

I am thinking of trying to add the Motorola repeater USB device ID to a blacklist file so that the operating system doesn't attempt to configure the network interface, but I am not sure if this would prevent VirtualHere Clients from being able to connect.

Can someone please advise whether or not this will work? And, if it won't work, do you have any other ideas of what I can do to resolve this issue?

FYI - I've had zero issues connecting to the repeater remotely outside of the multi-homed network interface situation. VirtualHere has saved me countless trips to the repeater site!

Thanks in advance!