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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.


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