On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 08:02:37PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > I don't know. At any case we are need provide the same API as linux
> > vmnet provide, so we are need to implement it in the kernel module.
> > But bochs use user level implementation.
> >
> > > It does have some limitations (can't send packets to the host/os) but
> > > I don't know how complete the code is either.
> > At this time I found the next message (it was posted more than 3 years
> > ago at the freebsd-hackers mailing list):
> >
>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=661424+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/1996/freebsd-hackers/19961020.freebsd-hackers
> >
> > It's a very long URL but I hope that it's possible to retrieve it. At least
> > you can search via its subject: Networking in PCEMU (1/2)
> >
> > I don't study this code, but it looking not so bad.
>
> check if you might not be able to use a netgraph module for this.
My first think was about netgraph, but loopback ethernet driver, much closer
to current linux vmnet implementation. I wrote to Serge Babkin (author
of original posting), and he pointed to more fresh version of the driver:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/6668
--
Vladimir Silyaev.
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