[Simh] running on Debian

[Mark Pizzolato]

> I have always found the tap+bridge style easier than pcap. It works just
> as you would expect a separate computer to work.

Once you’ve got the network structure setup the simh commands are certainly simple and it works (at least for Wired Ethernet).

> With pcap I was never sure what happened when talking to the local computer.

Joshua is just getting started with simh AND the goals he’s described don’t actually include communicating between the host system and other systems on the LAN.

> Bridged virtual interfaces is what you use for other virtual machines,
> why not simh?

The hard part, is changing the network configuration of the host computer.  This is a set of activities which are certainly NOT where someone new to this process should start until they’ve already go a working simulator system.

Other virtual machine environments have network components which are ‘installed’ when the virtual machine application is installed and this installation process handles the messy part of changing the network setup.


-          Mark



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