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Date:      Thu, 2 Dec 1999 20:02:37 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        "Vladimir N. Silyaev" <vsilyaev@mindspring.com>
Cc:        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:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912022000420.12599-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <19991202223604.B5379@jupiter.delta.ny.us>

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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



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