[Simh] How to set up network bridge for SIMH on Solaris host?

[Hans Rosenfeld]

On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 01:55:00PM +0000, lists at openmailbox.org wrote:
> > On illumos I usually just create a vnic over a real ethernet interface,
> > and attach the simulator to that:
> > 
> > # dladm create-vnic -l rge0 simh0
> > 
> > rge0 is my ethernet interface, simh0 is the name of the vnic. You can
> > then attach simh to simh0 as you would attach it to any other ethernet
> > interface. This will allow you to communicate with the host as well as
> > with the network it is attached to.
> 
> I will try this with Solaris 10, unless dladm isn't supported on that
> version. Thanks a lot for the suggestion!

Maybe that Crossbow network-virtualization stuff was backported to 10, I
don't know. If not, maybe you can consider switching to an illumos
distribution like OmniOS or OpenIndiana.


Hans


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