Re: [Qemu-devel] For what is slirp ?

[Jens Arm]

> > >>Hmmmm, Knoppix 3.4 tries to find a IP over DHCP, but I do not get one
> > >> from slirp.
> > >
> > > On Morphix I found that pump did not work but dhclient did.  Of these
> > > two, I think Knoppix only has pump.
> >
> > QEMU now supports pump too. Note that although it was a bug in QEMU dhcp
> > server, it is also a severe security problem in pump (buffer overflow if
> > reply packet from DHCP server too long !).
> 
> That's nasty :-(  Of course, what would the script kiddy gain? "Yay, I 
> 0wn3d a VM instance.  I am s0 l33t!" :-)
> 
> I'll be trying Knoppix 3.4 soon.  That has a couple of kernels try try as 
> well as some of the most involved (and hacked) hardware detection.


For me, Knoppix 3.4 is getting the IP now :)


Jens