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[Stephen <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Have you tried the wifi hotspot approach?"

Yes, that works flawlessly. However in crowded public areas (I use my 
phone for broadband connection for my laptop), it's desirable for 
security reasons to run usb tethering.

on the phone, ifconfig rndis0 shows

Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx (etc.).
inet addr: 10.42.1.1 Bcast: 10.42.1.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: xx:: (etc)  ... Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX and TX packets: 0 errors: 0 --> (everything =0)
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)    TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

So no Transmitting or receiving anything (via tethering/ethernet).