[User-mode-linux-devel] Re: Making incoming connections to a uml

[William S. <wst...@po...>]

Good afternoon, Jeff,

On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Jeff Dike wrote:

> I'm revamping the web site, and I'd like to describe how to allow incoming 
> connections.  That's the port forwarding thing you showed me a while back.  
> Can you repeat it so I can toss it in?

	I need to look that up again; I'll send it to you when I have it.
	For tips like that, do you have any preference about whether they
show up on the web site proper or in the howto?  I'd be glad to add it to
the howto if that's useful.

> How are things going?  I haven't heard anything from you in a while, so I 
> assume that uml is behaving itself.

	Kinda-sorta.  It wasn't clear whether "set_signals(0)" or
"set_signals(-1)" was the correct value in system.h:local_irq_save(flags),
so I'm trying them both.  I get a "Seg fault in signals" with a
set_signals(0) after 10 minutes or so of flood pinging a machine across
an ethernet cable from the host.  I also get the exact same error with
set_signals(-1)
	I hope you understand that I'm not fixated on pingflooding people
on the local lan!  It just seems like an easy way to reproduce a
networking issue that might take days under normal circumstances to show
up.

	I tried to get yesterdays (8/8) cvs kernel to compile, but
commenting out a lot of references to init_ptproxy and a few other
_ptproxy functions gave me a compiled executable, but it didn't run.  No
answer necessary; I'm sure you knew the problem existed and are working on
it.  I was mostly doing it to see Rusty's new menuconfig stuff.
	Cheers,
	- Bill

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