Thanks for this, and I will use this scenario if I can't get slip working.
Slirp's performance is not so hot, which is the only reason I'm avoiding it.
> Subject: Re: [uml-user] help getting slip networking going
> From: clow...@clownix.net
> To: w_bar...@hotmail.com
> CC: user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 23:59:08 +0100
>
> Hello,
> I have no direct answer for the slip (I thought it war slirp)
> but the cloonix-8.01 embeds an uml openwrt backfire and an uml lenny
> and has its own slirp to go out to the internet without going through
> the host'ip stack.
> see at cloonix.net or clownix.net for the set of tools to get a running
> uml machine that is ready to surf the web.
> I hope this helps.
>
>
>
> Le vendredi 24 décembre 2010 à 12:09 -0800, Wil Barath a écrit :
> > I 've looked through the docs and googled the heck out of this list
> > and the 'net, but can't find a single working example of a slip
> > setup.
> >
> >
> > I need to use slip because I am running the UML in a VPS (with no
> > kernel tun/tap support, exactly the situation pointed out in the docs
> > as the only reason to use slip)
> >
> >
> > There's a lot of commentary about how slip was the first way UML was
> > connected to the 'net and how it has drawbacks, but unfortunately the
> > examples present in the documentation make a lot of assumptions about
> > the host. I get the feeling the author genuinely believed that using
> > slip was a bad thing, and so avoided giving a useful example as a way
> > of discouraging its use.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Here's my config so far (all taken from the docs, but not verbatim, as
> > it would collide with my upstream router)
> >
> >
> > #HOST ./linux-2.6.24-rc7 ubda=Fedora.cow,FedoraCore5-x86-root_fs
> > eth0=slip,192.168.0.1
> >
> >
> > [... loading noise...]
> >
> >
> > [r...@localhost ~]# dmesg
> > Linux version 2.6.24-rc7-dirty (jd...@tp.user-mode-linux.org) (gcc
> > version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-27)) #97 Mon Jan 7 11:18:24 EST
> > 2008
> > [...snip...]
> > net_namespace: 64 bytes
> > Using 2.6 host AIO
> > NET: Registered protocol family 16
> > NET: Registered protocol family 2
> > Time: itimer clocksource has been installed.
> > Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
> > IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
> > TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
> > TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
> > TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)
> > TCP reno registered
> > Checking host MADV_REMOVE support...<3>MADV_REMOVE failed, err = -38
> > Can't release memory to the host - memory hotplug won't be supported
> > mconsole (version 2) initialized on /root/.uml/wOqluE/mconsole
> > [...snip...]
> > TCP cubic registered
> > NET: Registered protocol family 1
> > NET: Registered protocol family 17
> > Initialized stdio console driver
> > Console initialized on /dev/tty0
> > console [tty0] enabled
> > Initializing software serial port version 1
> > Choosing a random ethernet address for device eth0
> > Netdevice 0 (66:35:f6:cf:fb:ab) : SLIP backend - SLIP IP = 192.168.0.1
> > console [mc-1] enabled
> > [...snip...]
> > Setting slip line discipline: Invalid argument
> > uml_net : waitpid process 15689 failed, errno = 10
> > slip_tramp failed - err = 10
> >
> >
> > [r...@localhost ~]# ifconfig
> > lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> > RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> >
> >
> > [r...@localhost ~]# ifconfig eth0 up
> > Setting slip line discipline: Invalid argument
> > uml_net : waitpid process 27924 failed, errno = 10
> > get_ifname failed, err = 22
> > SIOCSIFFLAGS: Invalid argument
> > [r...@localhost ~]# route
> > Kernel IP routing table
> > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref
> > Use Iface
> > 169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0
> > 0 lo
> >
> >
> > [from the docs, 2 steps to configure the interface for slip, albeit
> > not explicitly given.]
> >
> >
> > [r...@localhost ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> > DEVICE=eth0
> > ONBOOT=yes
> > IPADDR=192.168.0.100
> > GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
> > NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> >
> >
> > [r...@localhost ~]# halt
> >
> >
> > #HOST ifconfig sl0 192.168.0.1 pointopoint 192.168.0.100 up
> > SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> > sl0: unknown interface: No such device
> > SIOCSIFDSTADDR: No such device
> > sl0: unknown interface: No such device
> > sl0: unknown interface: No such device
> >
> >
> > Best guess at this point is I'm missing something here to create the
> > virtual slip network interface, and possibly the other portion is
> > failing because it is not present, but the errors are not so helpful.
> > "Setting slip line discipline: Invalid argument" "uml_net : waitpid
> > process 27924 failed, errno = 10" "get_ifname failed, err = 22"
> > "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Invalid argument" - sounds like the guest side (or
> > echoing the host side, vague) was unable to find the slip interface.
> >
> >
> >
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