From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 17 00:44:13 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C780D1065679 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:44:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mlobo@digiart.art.br) Received: from sv4.hmnoc.net (sv4.hmnoc.net [63.247.76.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D4718FC0A for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:44:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40576 helo=squirrel.sv4.hmnoc.net) by sv4.hmnoc.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MnF8Y-0004DA-AW; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:14:47 -0300 Received: from 200.249.56.17 (proxying for unknown) (SquirrelMail authenticated user mlobo@digiart.art.br) by squirrel.sv4.hmnoc.net with HTTP; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:14:46 -0300 (BRT) Message-ID: <51072.200.249.56.17.1252948486.squirrel@squirrel.sv4.hmnoc.net> In-Reply-To: <20090914155807.5ED7B1CC37@ptavv.es.net> References: <20090914155807.5ED7B1CC37@ptavv.es.net> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:14:46 -0300 (BRT) From: "Mario Lobo" To: "Kevin Oberman" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - sv4.hmnoc.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - digiart.art.br Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New network capabilities? X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:44:13 -0000 > I see that the new port of VB seems to have added a couple of kernel > modules that are probably network related: vboxnetadp.ko and > vboxnetflt.ko. > > Do these provide new networking options? I have seen quite a bit of > discussion of new network code on this list, but I am not sure exactly > what they cover or how to use them and I don't see much on the wiki, > but it looks like TAP is now available. > They provide host and bridge networking respectively. The TAP device (a great patch provided by Juergen Lock) is still in the code (I think) but Juergen designed it to be used while the networking bridge was not avaliable. I think that you can still use the TAP patch at the cost of disabling the bridge code. Mario Lobo