From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Chubb Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 09:34:46 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] simeth problem... Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Stephane" = Stephane Eranian writes: peterc> I'm having problems with the simulated ethernet interface. peterc> From within the simulator, I can ping any machine on the local peterc> network except the machine the simulator is being hosted on. Stephane> That's normal. Because of the way simeth is implemented you Stephane> cannot ping the local host IP address from within the Stephane> simulated kernel. Can this be added to the readme file or something? Or, preferably, fixed (although that might be too hard, and there be too little interest). Another problem I'm having is that if I create lots of simulated discs only the first two are ever recognised. The documentation says I can have up to 26, but only sda and sdb are ever seen by the kernel. Peter C