Re: DOSemu networking made easy

[Mateusz Viste <mateusz@viste-family.net>]

Hi again,

Added a little schema that shows how taprouter interacts with the linux 
bridge, dosemu, tap interfaces and slirp...

http://www.viste-family.net/mateusz/software/taprouter/

Not sure it makes the whole thing looking less of a contraption, though :P

The silver bullet would be to integrate all this mess into DOSemu (ie de 
facto implementing a 'user network' like in qemu/bochs/vbox), but that's 
something I unfortunately don't have enough time for.

Mateusz





On 06/24/2013 03:23 PM, Stas Sergeev wrote:
> 24.06.2013 15:36, Mateusz Viste пишет:
>> 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.
> Hi!
>
> Maybe a naive question, but, what problem does it
> actually solve? I can see some advantage of this over
> the bridging tap0 with eth0 solution, but what advantage
> does it give over the static route with masquerading solution?
>
> You seem to be saying that the dosemu's networking
> configuration tends to change when you relocate your
> laptop - I can agree with this if we talk about bridging,
> but is it still true for the routing case?
>
> I think I can just install a generic DHCP server and dosemu
> will be able to reach it. Also, if tap0 is bridged with eth0,
> dosemu will be able to reach an outer DHCP server.
> Is this not true?
>
> I am not sure what does this mean:
> ---
> taprouter expects you to use the IP address 10.0.2.1 as a default gateway
> ---
> you mean default gateway for dosemu or what?
>
> Why your tool itself need a tap device?
>
> Sorry, I am just a bit lost. :)
> Never used dosemu with DHCP, but I haven't expected there
> are any problems that need an extra tool to solve.
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