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Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:28:52 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] networking using libpcap
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To: Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>, Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>

Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
> Anthony,
>
>> 2) When using ifname=eth0, traffic doesn't work from host=>guest nor 
>> from guest=>host.  This seems like a major short-coming to me.  
>> Having another networking option that is easy to use but doesn't work 
>> in some fundamental way that a user would expect seems like it's just 
>> going to lead to even further confusion.  This patch isn't attractive 
>> to me unless it works just like you were bridging to a physical 
>> interface (and I don't think there's anything fundamental preventing 
>> that).
>
> this works on Win XP. According to the source it seems to need 
> BIOCFEEDBACK
> ("This is necessary to connect host and guest.") on BSD. Maybe 
> something like
> this is also needed on your system.
>
> Which OS did you try it with? Linux?

Yes, with libpcap 0.9.8-2.fc9.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> - Sebastian
>