On Monday, October 5, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: > On 2015-10-05 18:08, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote: > > On Monday, October 5, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Jordi wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Johnny, VDE works at layer 2 and has no idea about IP addressing or > >> routing. > >>> > >>> Right. But the point was that the VDE should be between just the > >>> simh and > >> the MAC, and not bridged with the WiFi. Sounds like it is bridged to > >> the WiFi in this case… > >>> > >> Oh, you mean using the mac as a router (ip forwarding enabled). Then > >> you are right and the mac itself would have to provide DHCP services to > the “tap” > >> interface where the virtual switch is accesible. TBH I’ve never tried > >> this myself, and I’d advise to use static IP configurarion in the VMS side. > > > > Actually getting the 'mac as a router' to work would be far more > complicated since router on the LAN would then need to know about the > additional network that the mac was routing for. Getting this to work would, > at least, be complicated for a single router and never for the general case. > > Nothing prevents you from letting the MAC do NAT in addition to the > routing. :-)
Well with the user mode NAT that slirpvde provides the mac OS needn't know anything about any routing that is going on. - Mark _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
