In message of 31 Jan, Kees Grinwis <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> 2009/1/27 Tom Hughes <[email protected]>:
> > Attached is a patch which adds a few enhancements to the network support
> > in RPCemu. The changes are:
> >
> >   - Add support for bridged networking - if bridgename is set in the
> >     config file instead of ipaddress then the interface will be joined
> >     to the specified bridge. This allows it to be bridged with the
> >     hosts ethernet interface and avoids the need for iptables rules to
> >     be used to NAT the traffic.
> 
> So with this patch RPCEmu will be able to use an IP address in the
> same subnet as the host? Or am I interpreting this totally wrong?
> 
> Because the major drawback of the current solution is that it is
> impossible to use ShareFS between RPCEmu and an external RISC OS
> system.

But I don't think ShareFS uses Internet protocol.  Though Tom's solution
may indeed enable ShareFS.

I even suspect that if ShareFS did use IP we would not suffer the
problems of failures between machines that network at different speeds.

-- 
Tim powys-lybbe                                          [email protected]
             For a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/

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