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#817 ne2k emulation has very high latency on FreeBSD host
I use FreeBSD 5.2.1 as host and Bochs CVS from
2004-08-18, but I cannot get ne2k emulation to work.
I insert following line in .bochrc:
ne2k: ioaddr=0x240, irq=9, mac=b0:c4:20:00:00:00,
ethmod=fbsd, ethdev=re0
As guest OS I tried Windows 95 B, Windows 98 Second
Edition and QNX 6.2.0, but for all these guests, it is
always the same with ne2k emulation: I get an IP
address and other data from my DHCP-enabled router, but
I can only ping localhost and the IP I got from inside
the emulation. None of the other IPs from real boxes
(not the host), neither non-local IPs work.
Logged In: YES
user_id=501368
After some more testing, I figured out, that networking
works out of the box, no special setup is needed, however,
it has very high latency, thus, most applications "detect"
a timeout before they get any answer, and because of that,
they aren't really usable/useful.
Ping doesn't reply most of the time because of a timeout,
and DNS lookups fail as well. But if I get a download
starting, the file gets downloaded at a very good speed, and
all of a sudden, ping replies come in constantly, with times
of around 100ms (LAN computer). But as soon as the download
is finished, nearly all ping requests timeout again...
Bochs has now builtin slirp support. Does it fix this issue when using the 'slirp' module instead of 'fbsd'.
No response, closing this item.