[Simh] Networking and SIMH

[Gregg Levine]

Hello!
Correct on that point Johnny.

Mark, where do you want the build activity posted? Here? To the Git
server's pages? I'll rebuild everything, and this time with the script
mechanism writing down what happened.
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."


On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> On 2013-12-06 11:21, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote:
>>
>> Hi Gregg,
>>
>> On Thursday, December 05, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
>>>
>>> Okay so I've managed to install the VDE components and the PCAP
>>> development components on my Raspberry Pi. Invoking make caused the
>>> build system to "choose" the VDE components. Why? When both are
>>> present I figured it would chose both rather then the one I'm not
>>> familiar
>>> with.
>>>
>>> In any case I know I can work with what the methods chose and eventually
>>> accomplish what I am planning on doing with the appropriate simulators.
>>
>>
>> The build It is not an either or process.   It will build using whatever
>> Ethernet transports methods are available on the local environment when the
>> build is done and each of those may be available when running with the
>> simulator you built.
>>
>> As I recall, when I did this on the Raspberry Pi, I didn't have to look
>> for libpcap-dev for that platform, I believe it was packaged with the OS.
>> If /usr/include/pcap.h exists AND libpcap's shared object is available on
>> the system (i.e. if tcpdump works) that is sufficient to build (and later
>> use at runtime) with libpcap support.
>>
>> You don't explain how you think it chose just VDE rather than both.  If
>> you provide the output that make produced while building the simulator it
>> will be more clear what capabilities are being built in.
>>
>> Meanwhile, to use one Ethernet transport method over another at run time
>> will depend on several different goals.  You need to be running as root on
>> any Linux platform in order to inject packets into the network using
>> libpcap.
>
>
> You need to be running as root to even sniff packets with pcap.
>
>         Johnny
>
> _______________________________________________
> Simh mailing list
> Simh at trailing-edge.com
> http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh