From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BrrkH-0006LT-DE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 01:21:53 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BrrkF-0006LH-AR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 01:21:53 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BrrkF-0006LE-1p for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 01:21:51 -0400 Received: from [62.253.162.94] (helo=mta10-svc.ntlworld.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Brrg0-00065V-Go for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 01:17:28 -0400 Received: from [10.10.10.100] ([81.107.87.144]) by mta10-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) with ESMTP id <20040803051617.FBPI10838.mta10-svc.ntlworld.com@[10.10.10.100]> for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 06:16:17 +0100 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Network problems - any news? From: Antony T Curtis In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1091510246.56584.4.camel@pcgem.rdg.cyberkinetica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 06:17:26 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 22:55, Johannes Martin wrote: > Hi, > > a few weeks ago, some people reported on their network connection being > flaky in a Win98 guest. I experience similar problems with a OS/2 guest. > Most of the time, it won't even receive a DHCP response. > > Has anybody been able to track down the source of these problems yet? Are > they independent of the emulated NIC, or may I have better results using > one of the alternative NIC emulators? I have only had 100% success with my AMD PCNet NIC emulation when using OS/2 guest. It was what partly what prompted me to write that emulation. (since then, my OS/2 hd image was damaged by a bad block, I'll have to reinstall) -- Antony T Curtis, BSc. UNIX, Linux, *BSD, Networking antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com C++, J2EE, Perl, MySQL, Apache IT Consultancy.