Bug#181273: marked as done (RFA: vmnet -- A simple virtual networking program)
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From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
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Subject: RFA: vmnet -- A simple virtual networking program
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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.
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From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
To: 181273-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Fixing WNPP problems
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Removed from the archive - old, superseded.
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Martin Michlmayr
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