[Simh] Simh Networking on restrictive network?

[Robert G. Schaffrath]

This modification sounds very interesting.  I have played with libpcap 
but at times I have found the host system to sometimes become unstable 
because of it.  Being able to run an network enabled version of simh 
without needing to install a special driver would be nice.  

Jason Stevens wrote:
> I do have a version of the microvax for simh that I've modified to use 
> SLIRP instead of pcap.  The upshot is that you don't need a device 
> driver on the host PC (libpcap), and that you can either dhcp your vax 
> or just give it an ip for the virtual TCPIP stack to talk to...  It 
> also supports TCP port redirection, although currently it has to be 
> modified in the source.  Also the other upshot is that you just run 
> the emulator like an application... so it's portable in that I run a 
> copy of my VAX stuff on a thumb drive...
>