From: Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@gentoo.org>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Mark <mark@baretoes.net>,
UML-user <user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [uml-user] ppp and UML -possible? why or why not?
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:12:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1181859171.21874.3.camel@athena.fprintf.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070614215822.GA12047@c2.user-mode-linux.org>
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 17:58 -0400, Jeff Dike wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 11:08:16AM -0700, Mark wrote:
> > My question is I've looked around, but don't understand why (page
> > 54) says that UML doesn't support PPP. Is pppd the problem and can I
> > just use something like slirp? (I did find a debian package with UML
> > and slirp).
>
> You're looking for a mechanism to exchange packets with the host, not
> asking about ppp support within UML?
>
> ppp isn't supported because no one ever wrote it. Slirp is basically
> the last choice for when nothing else will work, and ppp might be
> right down there with it. TUN/TAP is the mechanism of choice.
>
> Jeff
>
I actually started writing ppp support at one point, so that we could
test using point-to-point connections between UMLs, but the project got
canceled before I got anywhere.
Daniel
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2007-06-14 21:58 ` [uml-devel] [uml-user] ppp and UML -possible? why or why not? Jeff Dike
2007-06-14 22:12 ` Daniel Gryniewicz [this message]
2007-06-14 22:53 ` Mark Lidd
2007-06-15 23:43 ` Blaisorblade
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