It turns out that when I ran tunctl: % sudo tunctl
it creates a tap0 interface owned by root. I'm running the UML instance as martin and I think that's why the operation was not permitted. After I ran: % sudo tunctl -u martin I was able to go on (I'm going through the User Mode Linux book but the -u switch wasn't very emphasized in the networking chapter). Looking at /usr/share/doc/uml-utilities/ proved useful though as it clarified that tunctl associates the interface with a user as well as the use of uml_net which had confused me. Thanks for pointing me. - Martin On Dec 27, 2007 5:05 PM, Allen Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 26 December 2007, Martin Paraskevov wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I'm new to uml and tried to set up networking but when I run the > > command: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.253 up > > > > I get the following error: > > ... > > If this is using the Debian uml-utilities package, try > adding "eth0=daemon,,unix,/var/run/uml-utilities/uml_switch.ctl" to > the command line when executing the guest kernel. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > User-mode-linux-user mailing list > User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
