No this isn't PPP. PPP is a serial line device protocol for modems.
Networking is much, much different. He is talking about having a sort of
fake firewalling setup so that plex86 could use a real network adapter. It
sounds like an ok idea, assuming that Colin's PCI-spoofing code works out.
Drew Northup, N1XIM
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> Subject: Re: [plex86] brain fart regarding networking
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> On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:16:47PM -0600, <David Creswick wrote:
> > handle the packet forwarding and it would just think it's on
> two networks.
> > (the second one being one on a single machine with a host system and the
> > guest system)
> Hm. So this would be a point to point network? PPP sounds good to me.
>
> Not as fast as possible with an emulated NE2k or somthing, but needs to
> special treatment on either end. Hell, it's workable /right now/.
>
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