Re: [coLinux-users] Networking: NSIS installer fails to configure tap correctly.

[Mike M. <mme...@na...>]

On 8/2/2010 12:55 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:40, Mike Mestnik wrote:
>    
>>   I wanted to write a custom installer for Nagios running under coLinux.
>>   This worked great... although the tap adapter doesn't operate.  I was
>> wondering if I could seek some assistance from an nsis developer?
>>
>> I'd also wonder if this was common for networking to not function, unless
>> you used Slirp?
>> After researching Slirp I'm thinking it should have been my first choice.
>>
>> Never the less it would be grand if my first attempt could be working.
>>
>> I'm able to ping Windows from coLinux, but Windows dose not attempt to arp
>> or ping back.  Most odd, tcpdump under colinux shows only it's own traffic
>> and ping replies.  I'm using ipv4ll for the tap interface on the windows
>> side and a static 169.254 address in coLinux .
>>      
> checkout the NSIS installer patch ive written here:
> http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/project/bfin-colinux/scmsvn/trunk/patches/
>
> this installer will install winpcap, the tap driver (already part of
> colinux), prompt the user for the desired IP addresses, and then take
> care of the setup for them.
>    
What was your motivation for disabling the [1]embedded winpcap installer 
and replacing it with an execwait?  I would recommend that you Embed the 
putty and xming installers in the same fashion that the WinPcap 
installer was.

1. http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Embedding_other_installers

This looks to be a vary full featured installer, but I can't determine a 
solution to the issue I'm reporting.  For my installation "ndis > 
winpcap" so winpcap was removed from the install.

I feel there is something wrong with the tap adapter, not sure it's an 
NSIS issue.

> ive tested this under win2000/winxp/vista and know it works there.
> presumably it also works under win7 since it'll be close to vista, but
> i dont have any win7 32bit installs to test with :x.
> -mike
> -mike
>
>    


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