[Simh] Hello and a noobish question about networking

[Gregg C Levine]

Hello!
Jason, I believe that particular library is part of the basic C library,
that's the heap big one who travels with the unique headers. 

And as such since its part of a dynamic run-time package, it really can't be
built static, let alone linked static as such. I believe as you suspect it
would need to be re-written to do so.

And as for networking, typically I just assign the Ethernet controller, to
an existing card, either the host's card, or one specifically installed for
the purpose.

Incidentally Mike, on the SIMH site there's a great abundance of links who
can supply answers to something like fifty percent of your questions.
Including the all important one, what can I do with this once I've restored
the system image.
--
Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon at worldnet.att.net
"The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
  


> -----Original Message-----
> From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com
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> Behalf Of Jason Stevens
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 10:45 PM
> To: Simh at trailing-edge.com
> Subject: Re: [Simh] Hello and a noobish question about networking
> 
> This has reminded me I need to update the sourceforge with more
> binaries, I added a linux i386 with a 'semi' static libpcap attached
> in there...
> 
> What's odd is under linux you cannot link -lrt statically... I guess
> I'll have to hunt down the source to librt and just include the
> associated object files...
> 
> Anyways I'll try to get access to a PowerMAC or some kind of mac with
> universal tools and build some more builds..
> 
> As for using the networking support I've usually just attached it to
> the physical eth0 on linux.
> 
> You could do some tun/tap trickery, but it'll involve modules & some
> other stuff....
> 
> Which reminds me I should do another build with SLiRP support for us
> TCP/IP folk.
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Michael Kerpan <mjkerpan at kerpan.com>
wrote:
> >
> > So I'm Mike from Boston, a long time user and a first time "caller"...
> >
> > I recently got an OpenVMS hobby license and a copy of the OpenVMS 7.3
> > distribution media. My question is fairly simple, but I can't seem to
> > figure out how to proceed: how do I get Simh 3.8 set up to use a
> > tun/tap network interface in Linux? I would assume that I need to
> > install all the pcap stuff and compile the VAX emulator with network
> > support, but where would I go from there? Is there anything special
> > I'd need to do? Is the fact that my network card is of the wireless
> > sort a problem? I've never used tun/tap before and this is pretty
> > esoteric stuff, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Mike
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