I have always found the tap+bridge style easier than pcap. It works just as you would expect a separate computer to work. With pcap I was never sure what happened when talking to the local computer.
Bridged virtual interfaces is what you use for other virtual machines, why not simh? Peter On March 4, 2016 4:46:50 PM GMT+01:00, Mark Pizzolato <[email protected]> wrote: >Joshua, > >PLEASE consider Scott's configuration as advanced configuration details > >that you may want to deploy when you are polishing up what you're >putting >together. DO NOT start with this stuff. Start with basic pcap >networking >and migrate your existing system environment to a simh instance and >get that completely working before considering this stuff. In other >words, >learn to walk before you try running! > >- Mark > >On Friday, March 4, 2016 at 7:15 AM, Scott Bailey wrote: >> Sigh. No matter how many times I re-read before sending, it doesn't >matter. >> Let me expand on this: >> >> >1. in /etc/rc.local, I have this snippet to make sure the network >tap >> >device I need is ready to go: >> > >> >if ! ip link show tap0 ; then >> > tunctl -t tap0 >> > ifconfig tap0 up >> > brctl addif br0 tap0 >> >fi >> > >> >Here, tap0 is the device I am setting up for my virtual VAX and br0 >is >> >my physical interface. (As a reminder, going through this rather >than >> >putting simh directly on the physical interface is what enables your >> >virtual VAX and your Debian host to talk to each other.) >> >> Actually, of course, br0 is a bridge device that lets me connect tap0 >to my >> physical interface. I have this in /etc/network/interfaces: >> >> # The bridge interface >> >> auto br0 >> iface br0 inet static >> bridge_ports eth1 >> address X.Y.Z.3 >> broadcast X.Y.Z.255 >> netmask 255.255.255.0 >> gateway X.Y.Z.1 >> >> That is, if you current specify a device (like eth1) directly, >transfer its settings to >> br0 and attach the original NIC as a bridge port. [Or change >instances of "eth1" >> to "br0", then add the "bridge_ports eth1" line.] Then continue as I >originally >> described... >> >> Cheers, >> Scott >_______________________________________________ >Simh mailing list >[email protected] >http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
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