Hi all, It has been a long time now that I use DOSemu for most (if not all) of my FreeDOS-related needs, and I'm quite happy with it.
However, I noticed that DOSemu is scary for many people when it comes to networking, because setting it is not that much intuitive for people lacking in-depth networking knowledge. It's really a pity, since DOSemu provides very good networking emulation via its own embedded packet driver. I decided to do something to make networking with DOSemy easier. Not sure I succeeded, but here is the result of 1 day of my labor: taprouter. taprouter is a little program that will glue together DOSemu, linux bridging, TAP interfaces and SLIRP (the latter is not widely known by name, but it's the piece of code that is used by QEMU, Bochs, and probably others, to provide 'user net' support from within virtual machines). Anyway, taprouter is a layer 2 router/switch thing that will answer to ARP requests, intercept IP packets, and relay traffic back and forth to SLIRP, who will handle the tcp/udp work. Basically, the process of getting DOSemu to talk via the network is a 3 steps procedure: - configure basic linux bridging - configure wattcp to use a specific IP address - launch taprouter The advantage of the taprouter+slirp duo is that there is no need to run anything as root, and no need to play with neither the routing table, forwarding engine or (ip)NAT on the host machine. taprouter, as well as explanations about how to use it, are available for download below: http://www.viste-family.net/mateusz/software/taprouter/ Please keep in mind that this is my very first attempt, and things could probably be better done and/or better explained. I will try to improve the whole thing with time, if there's any interest from users. ;) cheers, Mateusz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
