[coLinux-users] Windows Vista and pcap

[Matthias H. <mat...@tu...>]

Hi!

I've been using coLinux on my Windows systems since
years. Now my boss bought me a new notebook that came
with Windows Vista. Unfortunately I don't succeed in
getting my old coLinux setup working again. I read all
documents I could find, following all the instructions
and hints. But still it does not work.


Some details on my setup:

In my previous (Windows XP based) setups, I used a pcap-
bridge on the Windows loopback interface. On Windows side,
I assigned the IP 192.168.0.1 to that loopback device, the
coLinux part uses an IP in this subnet (e.g. 192.168.0.100).
This way both systems were able to connect the other one
(e.g. Windows could ping to 192.168.0.100).

This setup proved to be quite useful on my notebook, since
I could use the regular "Internet Connection Sharing" mode
of Windows to allow coLinux to access the Internet. All
I had to do was selecting "Share this connection with:
Loopback" on the respective interface. Linux did not notice
if it connects via LAN, WLAN, VPN, UMTS or whatever.


My idea was to setup exactly this configuration also on my
new Vista system.

- I installed coLinux, starting the installer with "run as
   administrator" (I used the latest 0.8 build from 29.03.08)
- I installed the latest winPcap, also starting the installer
   with "run as administrator"
- I installed a loopback interface, naming it "Loopback"
- in the conf file I have the line:
   eth0=pcap-bridge,"Loopback",00:0F:9B:A4:88:00
- I opened a command prompt starting "cmd" on Vista, again
   with "run as administrator"
- Here I started the coLinux system:
   colinux-daemon.exe -t nt @debian.conf

The coLinux system boots up, I have an eth0 with the correct
IP address, but I am not able to ping the Windows host. Also
the other way around is not working.

I already disabled the Windows firewall, but that did not
help. Since I heard about running configurations using specific
versions of winPcap, I also tested with various winPcap versions,
but that did not have any effect.


Does anybody here have any idea? What could be my problem?
Is there anybody with a working pcap configuration? If yes,
what did you do? :-)


Best,
Matthias