Re: DOSEMU SPX PDETHER SOLVED!!!!

[Stas Sergeev <stssppnn@yahoo.com>]

Hello.

Peter Eckhardt wrote:
> But as I didn't find documentation
> how to make the above work in current dosemus i will summarize
> how to get SPX working
You are right, the docs were not properly
updated to reflect the TUN/TAP support
addition as noone have ever really tested
it (before you:)

> $_vnet="tap"
Very nice. At least now we know it really
works.

> Make sure /dev/net/tun is accessible by the user who runs dosemu.
I think you forgot to describe how you dealt
with the TAP interfaces. When dosemu opens
the /dev/net/tun and requests the TAP interface,
it is created in a "down" state (unless you
used tunctil). You have probably brought it
up with ifconfig? Also it is not clear how have
you connected the TAP interface with an outside
world. This is an essential difference with
an older way where dosemu used the ethernet
interfaces directly and no additional work
was necessary. Everything else (not TAP-related)
is mostly documented and applies to the TAP
just as well as to the older methods.