Drew wrote:
> Yes, you missed a big something. It is the same problem as that with
> fullscreen VGA: who 'owns' the device?
James wrote:
> 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.
Looks like I didn't express myself clearly. Funny, my thoughts were
perfectly clear to me (:-). I saw a driver in the host talking directly to a
driver in the guest, with no physical LAN card involved. The host would have
and own the physical LAN card(s). The Guest would think that the driver that
talked to the Host was driving an ethernet card and would treat it
accordingly. The Host would think the the driver that talked to the Guest
was driving a physical LAN card and would treat it accordingly. The
Pseudo-device on the Host side would need an IP (could get complicated if
another machine is doing DHCP resolution, although the Host/Guest linkage
could always use 192.168 pair of IP addresses with the host configured as a
router).
Well, maybe you get the picture. I can see it sooo clearly, but I'm having
trouble expressing it without drawing a picture (and e-mail isn't the best
medium for that...).
If you see what I mean, perhaps you can describe it better. If not, perhaps
some questions would help clarify. Let's talk some more.
