From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 3 17:10:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DDD714C0F for ; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 17:10:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vsilyaev@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (user-2iveard.dialup.mindspring.com [165.247.43.109]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA21117; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 20:08:54 -0500 (EST) Received: (from vsilyaev@localhost) by mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA00738; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 20:07:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from vsilyaev) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 20:07:55 -0500 From: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" To: Julian Elischer Cc: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" , 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) Message-ID: <19991203200755.B578@jupiter.delta.ny.us> References: <19991202223604.B5379@jupiter.delta.ny.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from julian@whistle.com on Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 08:02:37PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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