Re: [User-mode-linux-devel] uml ethernet interface - code

[James R. L. <jl...@mi...>]

On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 04:02:36PM -0400, Gerald Britton wrote:
> > I have a bare bones ethernet interface working in UML.  It uses an external
> > process (uml-net) to handle the connection between multiple uml's.
> 
> hrmm.. idea: this could probably be enhanced a bit adding ethertap support
> to uml-net so it can potentially communicate with the host os, this was
> an idea i'd had before but hadn't thought of it possibly communicating
> with multiple uml's on the same machine.

I have plans to use either ethertap or an AF_PACKET socket that can listen
too and send packets out a specific physical interface.  Either of these
should be fairly easy to add to the uml-net program.

Jim

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James R. Leu