Bug#181273: RFA: vmnet -- A simple virtual networking program
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-02-16
Severity: normal
I request an adopter for the vmnet package.
The package description is:
This program has been written to implement virtual networking
support for the Hercules S/390 simulator, but it is intentionally
generic in its functionality, so any other virtual machine
simulator/emulator program could potentially use it.
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The function is quite simple:
- The virtual machine simulator program starts VMnet and talks
the SLIP protocol with it over stdin/out.
- VMnet sets up a SLIP connection on the host system, talking over a
pseudo-tty to the VMnet program.
- Once things have been set up, VMnet simply copies the data streams
between stdin/out and the SLIP psuedo-tty in both directions.
Thus, the virtual machine has a direct SLIP connection with the host,
without needing to worry about root privileges, pseudo-ttys, access
rights, etc.
This program is more or less obsoleted by the tun driver in 2.4 kernels, and
as such I do not use it anymore. It is possible that it is still useful to
someone, and if that someone would step forward to maintain it, that would
be good. Otherwise, I will suggest that it be removed from Debian.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux mizar 2.4.20-evms-acpi-usbnet-skas #1 Fri Feb 14 23:55:06 EST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US
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- mdz
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