Re: [Qemu-devel] A QEMU net driver for OpenVPN's Tap-Win32 driver

[John Poplett]

Hi, Mike

Another developer sent me a patch recently that looks promising. It is based 
on the user-mode code in openvpn and works with the Tap-Win32 driver. I am 
out of town for a few days and have some more coding to do when I get back 
but will keep you posted.

Regards,

John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Tremoulet" <address@hidden>
To: "John Poplett" <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] A QEMU net driver for OpenVPN's Tap-Win32 driver


> John --
>
> I had looked into this only very slightly.  My thoughts were to use
> libpcap/libnet to essentially be a generic network adapter that could
> take over any network device, with the goal of using that to
> read/write from a TAP driver.  I'm not sure how the libpcap vs.
> winpcap API lines up, and I think (not 100% sure) that winpcap can
> write to the device as well, but that was the idea.  A command line
> switch could specify which network device to control, so I could
> concievably run multiple QEMUs with multiple TAP devices.
>
> I spent a week hunting down the networking code in QEMU (hey, I
> haven't done *that* much C programming lately) and then, well, life
> got busy.  I'd love to see this added, though, as it seems much more
> stable than the SLIRP in place today.
>
> -- Mike
>
>
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:47:32 -0500, John Poplett
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi, all
> >
> > I'm looking at what it would take to create a QEMU net driver to 
> > interface
> > with OpenVN's Tap-Win32 driver. So far it looks fairly straightforward to
> > do. colinux interfaces to Tap-Win32 already. Has anyone else looked into
> > this?
> >
> > John
> >
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