Re: [coLinux-users] RE: Getting CoLinux up & Running

[Chuck A. <ch...@da...>]

Robert Citek wrote:

> I'm curious to know what in particular did you find difficult about 
> configuring networking?  I'd like to know so that I can incorporate 
> those changes in the next bundle.

Confusion of the concepts of "bridged networking", for starters -- 
coLinux uses it in the sense that VMware does, whereas it means 
something quite different in XP (in XP it's a sort of poor-man's VLAN). 
  I never got bridged networking to work (not certain whether it was due 
to my struggles with ICS), so I ended up using the TAP driver and 
bridging it.

The TAP driver took ages to install, during which it just hung for a 
while.  I was certain it had locked up, so I had killed the process it a 
couple times in my initial attempts.  Also the advice to ensure that 
it's "always connected" was something I found elsewhere.

I wrestled with ICS for a while but it always wanted to change the IP of 
my network interface to a hardwired 192.168.0.1 ... I don't think my 
10.0.0.0 LAN would care much for that.  I was unfamiliar with XP's 
bridging, so it took me a little while to understand it.

Install the TAP driver, set it to "always connected", bridge it, set it 
on the linux side to use DHCP, and it works splendidly (assuming you 
install dhcpcd or pump and have a DHCP server on the network).  It was 
just the trial and error of discovering those steps that was tricky.

chuck