From: Nambi J U <ju...@gm...> - 2006-12-05 02:51:42
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Hi All, I am trying to use the stable release of 0.7.1 that Henry had suggessted for use. Is there a way to set the MAC address when using SLIRP for networking. Looking forward to hearing from you, Thank you for the replies. Regards, Nambi |
From: Henry N. <Henry.Ne@Arcor.de> - 2006-12-05 09:30:58
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Nambi J U wrote: > I am trying to use the stable release of 0.7.1 that Henry had suggessted > for use. Is there a way to set the MAC address when using SLIRP for > networking. No. The MAC is fixed coded in the source, and is only seeing from coLinux side, not from the host side. SLiRP handle only TCP and UDP datagrams to the outside, it's never sending ARP requests. I think, you never need to change the MAC, because it's a virtual network only between coLinux and the host. The seeing from outsite into your host the slirp use your MAC from your network adapater. From the outside your SLIiRP interface is completly hidden, it's seeing only as a application using the winsock networking API. -- Henry Nestler |
From: Nambi J U <ju...@gm...> - 2006-12-05 10:21:43
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Hi Henry, But when I use the SLiRP networking I get a different MAC address on every boot of the colinux session. I do not get the network adapters MAC address, could you please clarify why this is happening. In the case of 0.6.4, I set the MAC address to the network adapters value in the xml config file. Looking forward to hearing from you, Thank you, Regards, Nambi On 12/5/06, Henry Nestler <Hen...@ar...> wrote: > > Nambi J U wrote: > > I am trying to use the stable release of 0.7.1 that Henry had suggessted > > for use. Is there a way to set the MAC address when using SLIRP for > > networking. > > No. The MAC is fixed coded in the source, and is only seeing from > coLinux side, not from the host side. SLiRP handle only TCP and UDP > datagrams to the outside, it's never sending ARP requests. > > I think, you never need to change the MAC, because it's a virtual > network only between coLinux and the host. The seeing from outsite into > your host the slirp use your MAC from your network adapater. From the > outside your SLIiRP interface is completly hidden, it's seeing only as a > application using the winsock networking API. > > -- > Henry Nestler > |
From: Henry N. <Henry.Ne@Arcor.de> - 2006-12-05 11:13:22
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Nambi J U wrote: > But when I use the SLiRP networking I get a different MAC address on > every boot of the colinux session. > > I do not get the network adapters MAC address, could you please clarify > why this is happening. In the case of 0.6.4, I set the MAC address to > the network adapters value in the xml config file. Ok, I see. The MAC is ignored for the SLiRP interface. The config line parser still ignors it. Let me see, how can add it. I think, it's simple. But, I must test the working. Give me some days. Thank you for your pointer! -- Henry Nestler |
From: Henry N. <Henry.Ne@Arcor.de> - 2006-12-10 15:14:10
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Henry Nestler wrote: > Nambi J U wrote: >> But when I use the SLiRP networking I get a different MAC address on >> every boot of the colinux session. >> >> I do not get the network adapters MAC address, could you please clarify >> why this is happening. In the case of 0.6.4, I set the MAC address to >> the network adapters value in the xml config file. > > Ok, I see. The MAC is ignored for the SLiRP interface. The config line > parser still ignors it. > > Let me see, how can add it. I think, it's simple. But, I must test the > working. Give me some days. > > Thank you for your pointer! Is fixed in snapshot 10-Dec-2006. -- Henry Nestler |