On Sunday 12 October 2003 07:49, Alan Chandler wrote: > I am trying to use rootstrap to build a uml image. Unfortunately it has > got to the point where its trying to fetch packages from the debian mirror > and the network is hanging. > > I have set it up to use the uml_switch daemon. > > The switch daemon is connected to a tap device (tap0) which itself is > connected into a bridge with the external (2) ethernet cards of the host. > In otherwords the whole network inside the host should behave as though its > part of the same single ethernet lan of the rest of the network. [This is > a crucial assumption - is it right?]
I gave up in the end, and created a small sub-net for the uml_switch network. With routing set up properly (not so easy - I had to manually configure my internet gateway to route to this particular subnet) it has started to work (except for non network problems - see next post on subject) -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
