On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 04:25:49PM -0800, Colin Davidson wrote:
> P.s., James, protocols would be handled by the host/guest OSes, this would
> be a device-level connection. Actually, not much work. Much simpler than
> emulating a card, unless I've missed something(s?).
Right. What I was thinking is that the "device-level connection" would be
through an emulated serial port. On the host, run a pppd with a named pipe,
on the guest, the named pipe is a serial port, and run ppp over that.
Pro: requires no special drivers, on either side, nor special routing
considerations.
Con: Lots more interupts, means more overhead.
I think I like what you're saying. OTOH, I'm not certian how it would work
without having the host's eathernet card have multiple IPs. Which not only
means that you need it to be in promisc. mode for most cards, it means that
you can't work it unless you have more then one IP to use.
I'm going out for dinner now, I'll put more though into it after that.
-=- James Mastros
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