[User-mode-linux-devel] Re: 2.3.51 Networking *smile*

[Jeff D. <jd...@ka...>]

> How would it be if you used ethertap on the host and uml?  Could the
> uml kernel connect the output of one tap to the input of the other and
> vice-versa?

Where can I find something to read about ethertap?  Rusty also mentioned this 
a while back, as a possible way to get rid of the um_ifconfig kludge.

> As one possibility, one could assign an ndb device to fhd1.  The fake
> device at the other end of the network could be (perhaps _must_ be; I
> don't know) pointing to a physical device with a partition table.

Ok, I'll keep that in mind.

> If it really is a matter of cut and paste, would it be useful to
> simply enable the remaining syscalls and printk/syslog their use the
> first time they get called in a given kernel along with a request to
> mail "syscall 674, at location blah..." to you/the devel list?

I'm starting to think about what to do about the remaining syscalls.  I've 
been doing them one at a time so I make sure each one is right, and I didn't 
make any typos or anything, but that is starting not to be so useful now.

> I brought it up because I'm moderately confident that I've never
> successfully gotten any data into swap space on 2.3.51/2.3.51-uml.  

I checked it out after I sent that mail, and swap is indeed not working...

				Jeff