Eric Becker wrote:
an "ifconfig tap0 192.168.1.13 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255" so that it would talk with my network (my server is 192.168.1.12).
Will not work. The IP address you assign to tap0 is not the IP address your DOS client has. The way you did it, you got a separate PtP network consisted of a DOS client and tap0/Linux, in which case you have to resort to routing. To make your DOS session to work inside your existing 192.168.1.0 network (so that the broadcast can work, ARP etc), you must not assign any IP address and netmask to tap0, and set up the bridging to some interface which also doesn't have an IP address.
However, the first set of
instructions for TUN/TAP support instruct the user to "Configure the DOS network clients to have another IP address within the same domain". I'm a bit confused as to what will need to be loaded on the dos client in
order for it to network.
That depends on a client. If it is supposed to work with the packet driver, nothing needs to be loaded, since the packet driver is built in. If it works with NDIS, you'll need a PKT->NDIS remapper, etc. You have to figure out that yourself, since again this is unrelated to dosemu, but is most likely written in the docs of a software you are trying to run.
So then with the above setup I will only be able to communicate with the machine I'm running dosemu on?
Yes, or resort to an IP routing (which is not what you want).
Yes.But in order to communicate with the rest of th 192.168.1.x subnet I will have to bridge tap0 with another ethernet device (i.e. eth0)?
And then the dosghsrv can recieve requests from the ghost clients to broadcast the ghost images via multicast?
Yes, but the bridge must be transparent, ie. no IP address for tap0 neither for eth0. Removing the IP address from eth0 however will mean that while the DOS client will be visible in that subnet, the linux box will not - it will became a transparent bridge. In case you need the DOS client to communicate with the rest of the subnet, and *also* with the machine where dosemu is running, then you'll have to use a very tricky technique. Hope you don't need that:) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
