On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 19:11 +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > 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. > > 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. I managed to build pcap for 2.6 and 2.4, it is just that the interface simply does not show up at all in the guest, no messages, nothing.
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