Re: [9fans] 9vx and native networking

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

On Wed Feb 11 07:27:47 EST 2009, anothy@gmail.com wrote:
> Devon got this working for him about a month and a half ago; see this message:
> http://9fans.net/archive/2008/12/501
> I've still not made it work for me (on OS X), but i think the issues
> are actually in changes outside the ethernet stuff. I haven't had much
> time to dig in.

it's been working well for me.  i've been using etherrs (raw socket)
on linux.  the pcap version didn't work very well for me.  probablly
due to some linux misconfiguration.  also, if you're looking to ping,
make sure that the filter compiled into etherve.c doesn't drop non-ip
packets.  arp is not ip.

unfortunately, what you can't do is boot from a plan 9 fs.  and since
9vx requires many more cycles and much more memory than drawterm,
i've fallen back to that.  a faster linux machine might have lead to a
different decision.

- erik