Re: [uml-user] network installation.

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

On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Doug Needham wrote:

> I have just setup UML and it works great, except for one small part. 
> I cannot get networking going. 
> I have followed all of the docs that I could find 
> on my host system I have ethertap,tun and netdev modules installed. 
> I have tap0 configured properly (I believe)
> 
> I am starting up with the following command : 
> linux ubd0=root_fs.rh72.pristine umid=linuxum umn=192.168.1.75 
> eth0=tuntap,tap0,fe:fd:0:0:0:0,192.168.1.75
> 
> Once I log in I issue : 
> 
> ifup eth0
> and the response is : 
> 
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Invalid argument
> Failed to bring up eth0.
> 
> Is there a better howto, or FAQ that I should be looking at? 

	On RH7.2 we're looking at a quirk in how ifup brings up the 
network device.  For the moment, I believe you can run

ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.75 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 up
route add default gw {ip.of.the.host}

	inside UML to manually assign an ip address.
	Please write back to let us know if this workaround works for you.
	Cheers,
	- Bill

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