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

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On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 15:04:14 +0100
Hans Rosenfeld <rosenfeld at grumpf.hope-2000.org> wrote:

> 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.

I'm bringing up the server now. I'm not interested in running anything
other than S10 on this so I hope it works and if not that there is some
alternative. Thank you.

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