On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Tom Tasche <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Some colleagues and I are working on a networking related software > for our diploma thesis. > Basically we want to connect Cisco's PacketTracer to a real network > (that's actually not our diploma thesis, but it's one part of it) > and therefore need to bridge a physical interface > for receiving and sending ethernet packets with different mac addresses.
Cisco's packet tracer is both proprietary and not capable of connecting to real networks. I have co-developed a much better project, that is Open-Source. The GNS3 Network Simulator: http://www.gns3.net/phpBB/post9945.html ...this one *can* connect to real networks, and it is *fully* integrated with VirtualBox top-to-bottom. > We have tried to use the socket library on linux, > but it doesn't work on every NIC to fake the MAC address. > Now we want to extract that code out of VirtualBox. > However, we couldn't find that pieces of code > in VirtualBox's 270MB of awesome source sauce. > Would you guys be so kind and help us? What are you trying to find ? (internal, host-only and bridged code is in kernel modules; NAT, VDE and UDP Tunnel are user-space). MAC addresses can be faked from guest OSes (both Windows and Linux OSes support this at the driver level). VBox can fake MAC addresses at a virtual hardware level. > Oh, and sorry if this isn't the right place for this kind of question. > The forum looked like it's for users only... Yes, forum is mostly for users. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
