Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 20:07:55 -0500 From: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" <vsilyaev@mindspring.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" <vsilyaev@mindspring.com>, Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@mail.theinternet.com.au>, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, louie@TransSys.COM, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, groudier@club-internet.fr Subject: Re: vmnet (was: Linux ioctl not implemented error) Message-ID: <19991203200755.B578@jupiter.delta.ny.us> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912022000420.12599-100000@current1.whistle.com>; from julian@whistle.com on Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 08:02:37PM -0800 References: <19991202223604.B5379@jupiter.delta.ny.us> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912022000420.12599-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 08:02:37PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > 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. My first think was about netgraph, but loopback ethernet driver, much closer to current linux vmnet implementation. I wrote to Serge Babkin (author of original posting), and he pointed to more fresh version of the driver: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/6668 -- Vladimir Silyaev. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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