Re: [coLinux-users] (no subject)

[Eric S. J. <es...@ha...>]

Dave Hylands wrote:
>>even those of us who have a wee bit of knowledge about networking going
>>back to uucp sometimes get a bit confused about TAP adapters because
>>they do not work as expected.
> 
> 
> My understanding of how a TAP adapter works is that it's essentially
> the same thing as having an extra network card in your computer with
> the coLinux session behaving just like a real linux box would work if
> it were attached to that network card.

one would think this was the case but I'm having negative luck getting 
tap interfaces to work in colinux, bochs or qemu.  what really sucks is 
I need a self-contained environment to do some debugging with ipcop and 
preferably with the ability to use multiple ethernet cards so I can do 
the full red/orange/green testing with VPNs.  after working with colinux 
and xen, it gets so old having to set up physical hardware...

It would be grand if I could figure out how to use colinux as virtual 
environment for IPCop but I'm not quite sure what changes I would need 
to make to the kernel (we're still on 2.4) and how to pull all the 
pieces together from a Linux compiled kernel.

---eric

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