On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Antti Kantee <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 30/04/14 12:46, Justin Cormack wrote:
>>> I've also recently started thinking about "open sourcing" the design &
>>> implementation book and updating it to include especially rumprun.
>>
>> That would be good, as otherwise it will gradually drift away from
>> what is current, making it confusing for people.
>
> I'll put digging up the LaTeX sources and creating a repo out of them on
> the todo-list.  I'll probably need to edit some things first; e.g. IIRC
> the appendix of manpges builds nicely only on NetBSD (should just remove
> those and direct people to man.netbsd.org).

I would be inclined to remove things like man pages - it doesnt have
to be as standalone as a thesis. You could just check it in unmodified
first so its all in the repo though.

>>> Anyhow, suggestions for tutorials?
>>
>> I think people want to do a lot of different things, but there seems
>> to be some demand for a get stuff running with netmap. It is not the
>> easiest thing to start with though.
>
> Yea the problem with netmap is that the tutorial would have to start
> "set up netmap", and that's not very interesting especially for people
> who want to learn how to configure rump kernel networking and don't have
> netmap available on their host.
>
> I'd say shmif the best option there since it works universally and
> without root privileges.
>
> Ok, so networking will be one tutorial:
>
> * interface creation
> * configuring ipv4/ipv6 addresses manually
> * ip4/ip6 using dhcp & autoconf
> * configuring routing
> * creating a L3 router
> * ...
>
> netmap can then be a howto which points to the shmif tutorial.

Yes that is probably a good start.

j

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