[Simh] Simh Networking on restrictive network?

[Hittner, David T.]

Understand that SLIRP is for TCP/IP only.
Pcap enables SIMH to use of ALL networking protocols; TCP/IP, DECNET,
LAT, SCS(Clustering), proprietary protocols, etc.

Various *versions* of (lib)pcap have been unstable, but you can always
use one of the stable versions. ;-)

Dave 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com 
> [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Robert 
> G. Schaffrath
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 4:57 PM
> To: simh at trailing-edge.com
> Subject: Re: [Simh] Simh Networking on restrictive network?
> 
> 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...
> >
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