On Wed, 30 May 2001, Kevin Lawton wrote:
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> .... Hack away. ...
Which reminds me, this seems to be a good time to restate my idea of
networking. The guest os is provided an emulated network device that it
uses without having to write any drivers specific to plex86. On the host
end, the data sent through the virtual network card would be given to
a kernel module specifically written for plex86 (the monitor is already
being inserted; I don't see this as a big deal). The kernel module
would then emulate a network device on the host system that it can't
distinguish from a physical card put in. The host system can then act as
if it's on two networks and be a router using standard tools for data that
is coming from the guest. I know next to nothing about specifics of
assembly and low level drivers and kernel hacking, so I don't know how
this method's speed/performance compares to other ideas. This is just the
cleanest way I envision allowing the guest access to a network. There is
not really a special case on either the host or the guest.
David Creswick http://braznet.com/david Jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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