From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 2 20: 3: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E4D514CCE for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 20:03:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from current1.whiste.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA76181; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 20:02:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 20:02:37 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" Cc: Andrew Kenneth Milton , wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, louie@TransSys.COM, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, groudier@club-internet.fr Subject: Re: vmnet (was: Linux ioctl not implemented error) In-Reply-To: <19991202223604.B5379@jupiter.delta.ny.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Vladimir N. Silyaev wrote: > On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 12:16:00PM +1000, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: > > The bochs port implements a pseudo-ne2000 using BPF under FreeBSD, is > > this approach a possibility? The freebsd ether stuff from bochs has > > Peter Grehan (grehan@iprg.nokia.com) on the copyright so he'd be the > > one to contact about the availability of (parts of) his code to use in > > a port I suppose. > I don't know. At any case we are need provide the same API as linux > vmnet provide, so we are need to implement it in the kernel module. > But bochs use user level implementation. > > > It does have some limitations (can't send packets to the host/os) but > > I don't know how complete the code is either. > At this time I found the next message (it was posted more than 3 years > ago at the freebsd-hackers mailing list): > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=661424+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/1996/freebsd-hackers/19961020.freebsd-hackers > > It's a very long URL but I hope that it's possible to retrieve it. At least > you can search via its subject: Networking in PCEMU (1/2) > > I don't study this code, but it looking not so bad. check if you might not be able to use a netgraph module for this. julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message