From: Dustin W. <dus...@ya...> - 2004-08-09 19:17:19
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Last week I sent out a question regarding how to setup communication between the host OS and the coLinux OS even though the host was not connected to a network (see below for the original message). First I want to thank those who responded with ideas. Second I want to post the solution that I am using in case anyone else is confronted with the same problem. It turns out all I had to do was use the TAP interface and set it's "Media Status" configuration option to "Always Connected." I would have had this working sooner had I figured out how to correctly configure coLinux to use TAP in the first place. The reason I couldn't get the coLinux OS and my host OS to communicate through TAP was because I had set the "name" attribute of the network element in my configuration file so that I could use bridged networking. I didn't realize it needed to be unset when the "type" attribute is set to "tap." After making this change everything worked because I already had both the coLinux interface and the TAP adapter correctly configured. In the end it was a simple mistake on my part :) Thanks again for all the help, Dustin http://www.daemonmaker.net --- Dustin Webb <dus...@ya...> wrote: > Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 10:35:01 -0700 (PDT) > From: Dustin Webb <dus...@ya...> > Subject: LANless Networking between host and coLinux > To: col...@li... > > After that subject you're probably asking yourself > "What does this guy want to do?" My problem seems > fairly simple and while I've heard that there is a > solution, I haven't found it. I want to be able to > communicate between the host OS (in this case ms > windows xp) and my coLinux OS via TCP/IP while the > host machine *isn't* connected to a network. So far > my > experience has been, I unplug my box from the > network > and XP unloads the network drivers. I've checked the > Wiki, spoken with a couple of people in IRC and have > been perusing the mailing list archives with no > luck. > Can anyone offer any tips or point me towards the > appropriate documention? > > TIA from a first time poster, > Dustin > http://www.daemonmaker.net > |