Re: RFC: very large, redundant packages
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:12:05AM -0400, Mark Eichin wrote:
> > possibility for conflict. There is no guaranteed way (with IPv4 anyway) to
> > automatically configure a unique and usable network address.
>
> True. slirp, on the other hand (which is still packaged) doesn't have
> any such restriction, because it doesn't use addresses -- it just
> pretends to. (and I thought uml had serial port -> pty support, last
> time I looked, I may be misremembering?) The installer only needs to
> make outgoing tcp connections, for http downloads, right?
Interesting idea. Yes, it only needs to be able to go out and fetch
packages. I would have thought slirp irrelevant in this day and age; I am
surprised to find it active. I would be interested to hear whether this
setup works with UML.
It would be nice, though, to solve the general problem of network
configuration for emulators and such. I have a pretty clear idea of how it
should work, but I haven't had the time to sit down and write it.
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- mdz
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