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actually that's exactly what you DO need to do.<div><br></div><div>I do this myself with a wireless wlan interface and it works just fine.</div><div><br></div><div>you need the bridge and attach to the TUN/TAP interface.</div><div>and as the other post mentioned bridge the wlan interface</div><div><br></div><div>the unreleased bridge port certainly will not keep the entire host from shutting down,</div><div>I have no idea where you got such a crazy idea.</div><div><br></div><div>it works just fine for the two systems I run this on wireless.</div><div><br></div><div>I think this could even be made to work niceless on a raspberry pi rig.</div><div><br></div><div>imagine that a vax-cluster of wireless embedded systems, very cool.</div><div><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:58:13 -0600<br>> Subject: Re: [Simh] VAX XQ and wireless networking<br>> From: tivo.overo@gmail.com<br>> To: dgahling@hotmail.com<br>> CC: simh@trailing-edge.com<br>> <br>> I should have mentioned that I've tried setting up bridging and taptap<br>> without success when using the wireless interface. I use it on my<br>> desktop PCs (wired ethernet and Ubuntu) where it works OK though it's<br>> very cumbersome to start up and shut down.<br>> <br>> I thought the main advantage of a bridge was the fact that it lets the<br>> host and the emulated machine speak directly to one another via<br>> network packets, and that's a feature I don't really need in this<br>> case. Using the serial port emulation with a VT100 emulation over a<br>> tcp/ip socket is adequate and works well.<br>> <br>> On the desktop machines, the taptap module seems to have a tendency to<br>> "hang" on shutdown, even though the SIMH emulation has been closed<br>> down normally. The unreleased bridge port will keep the entire host<br>> from shutting down and requires a forced power off, which isn't very<br>> nice.<br>> <br>> On 11/17/12, Dan Gahlinger <dgahling@hotmail.com> wrote:<br>> ><br>> > It works...use the TUN interface and the bridging, works just fine.<br>> > Dan.<br>> ><br>> >> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:14:24 -0600<br>> >> From: tivo.overo@gmail.com<br>> >> To: simh@trailing-edge.com<br>> >> Subject: [Simh] VAX XQ and wireless networking<br>> >><br>> >> Is this even possible? I have SIMH 3.9 on Linux Mint 12, running the<br>> >> VAX with OpenVMS 7.3. It works great, except for networking. The<br>> >> hardware is ASUS EeePC with Atheros AR5001 wireless network adapter<br>> >> and Atheros L2 Fast Ethernet adapter.<br>> >><br>> >> I have libpcap version 1.1.1 (which is also callable as version 0.8)<br>> >> installed on Linux. The VAX module was compiled with networking<br>> >> enabled.<br>> >><br>> >> The configuration file has an "attach xq0 wlan0" or "attach xq0 eth0"<br>> >> depending on which interface I'm trying to use. With the wired<br>> >> ethernet (eth0) I am able to use both TCP/IP and DECNET Plus. With the<br>> >> wireless (wlan0) neither one works.<br>> >><br>> >> I've tried disabling the DECNET IV compatibility mode, which was<br>> >> recommended in one source for wireless compatibility, and also tried<br>> >> adding "set xq xx-yy-zz-aa-bb-cc" (with the actual MAC address of the<br>> >> wireless adapter) to the configuration. The first did nothing I could<br>> >> discern, and the second generated an error message during startup of<br>> >> the SIMH module, saying that the MAC address was already in use and<br>> >> could not be assigned.<br>> >><br>> >> Obviously the workaround is to use a cabled connection when the VAX<br>> >> emulator is needed, but this isn't very practical in most cases. Is<br>> >> there any other possibility I've overlooked?<br>> >><br>> >> I notice that this is a frequently found question when using Google to<br>> >> look for answers, but I found no responses other than the two<br>> >> solutions mentioned above. I suppose a different network card<br>> >> emulation for VAX could make the wi-fi adapter look like a normal<br>> >> ethernet interface, but apparently that hasn't been done yet and it's<br>> >> probably beyond my very rudimentary C coding abilities.<br>> >> _______________________________________________<br>> >> Simh mailing list<br>> >> Simh@trailing-edge.com<br>> >> http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh<br>> ><br></div></div> </div></body>
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