On Sunday 08 May 2005 20:38, Antoine Martin wrote: > I can't figure out how to use the pcap transport within a working > bridged environment: do I need a dedicated interface on the host to > attach to or can I reuse an interface already bound to a bridge? > I've got 'eth0 up promisc' on the host, attached to a bridge, I want to > start a UML instance with pcap transport to have access to all the > packets on the bridge, so I thought I would do: eth0=pcap,eth0,promisc > But the interface does not show up in the guest, am I missing something > or is there another way of achieving the same thing?
> I can attach a normal tun/tap promiscuous interface to the bridge but > that is no use, it will not get all packets as the bridge will discard > any packets not destined to its mac address. > Thanks > Antoine pcap currently does not work in 2.6, there are a couple of linking problems. If you need that, I'll be posting the patch to fix that soon. I've not verified whether the above setup sequence is correct, however. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Skype user "PaoloGiarrusso" Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display. Visit http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
