[coLinux-users] Re: Up and running at last

[Martin K. <ka...@po...>]

Hi,

Simon Turvey wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Windows 2000 and CoLinux 6.2pre3; phew, what a nightmare.  I seem to 
> have got things running now.  My desire was for a bridged connection as 
> my company's VPN software plays silly beggars with ICS.  My problem 
> seemed to stem from the documentation on the wiki with respect to 
> setting up bridged connections.  Seems everyone else is using Windows XP 
> and the native bridging that it provides.
I do not. I use TAP and Loopback device for host<->colinux communication 
and bridging (PCAP!) ethernet card to the rest of (inter)net.

> Under Win2k, is the TAP-Win32 device required for a bridged connection? 
TAP  device doesn't need PCAP or XP-bridge. if you use TAP only for 
communication with host. if you need to go to internet, you can install 
sock server or other software to route the communication. most of users 
use ICS or XP-bridge. This doesn't work with WLAN (not really sure). You 
can't use PCAP for WLAN (quite sure).

> Which is the correct name to use for the connection.  Again, the 
> documentation (README) suggests getting the name from the 'Connect 
> Using' label in the connection properties.  This cannot be true as I 
> didn;t get this working until I specified 'Local Area Connection' i.e. 
> my default connection as the one to bridge using.
I think if you use snapshot than you have to use the obvious name - as 
you did. If you use 0.6.1 and older version there was indeed other way 
to discover the names, but it wasn't as easy as written in Wiki 
especialy on non-english versions of windows.

> Answer these and I'll update the docs so noone else has to go through 
> this trial-and-error situation :)
Great!

Regards,
Martin