From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mateusz Viste Subject: DOSemu networking made easy Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 13:36:12 +0200 Message-ID: <51C82F2C.5@viste-family.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org Hi all, I'm happily using DOSemu since a long time now, and the one thing that has always been bothering me is the complicated networking settings. Playing with bridging and masquerading and transforming the host into a routing machine is usually fine on a home desktop PC, but it becomes a real pain on a laptop which, by nature, often change it's network settings and physical locations. This is why I wrote a tool to make DOSemu networking much easier (at least from my POV): taprouter. taprouter is a user-mode application that acts like a router for DOSemu, and handles the internet access by using the host's networking, using SLIRP as a backend (a purist might say that taprouter is more like an ethernet-to-SLIP-bridge-with-DHCP-and-ARP-proxy rather than a 'router'). It delivers network settings to DOSemu via DHCP, so there's no configuration needed on the DOSemu side. The thing is available for download (along with documentation) at the link below: http://www.viste-family.net/mateusz/software/taprouter/ I hope it will prove useful to anyone (else than me). :) cheers, Mateusz Viste