On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 17:58 -0400, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 11:08:16AM -0700, Mark wrote: > > My question is I've looked around, but don't understand why (page > > 54) says that UML doesn't support PPP. Is pppd the problem and can I > > just use something like slirp? (I did find a debian package with UML > > and slirp). > > You're looking for a mechanism to exchange packets with the host, not > asking about ppp support within UML? > > ppp isn't supported because no one ever wrote it. Slirp is basically > the last choice for when nothing else will work, and ppp might be > right down there with it. TUN/TAP is the mechanism of choice. > > Jeff >
I actually started writing ppp support at one point, so that we could test using point-to-point connections between UMLs, but the project got canceled before I got anywhere. Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
