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Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:41:09 -0500
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From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] ape sockets and plan9
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2010/12/28 erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>:
>> On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Bakul Shah <bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com> =
wrote:
>> > On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 17:04:01 GMT "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net> =
=A0wrote:
>> >> I think this is an artifact of 9vx (not 100% sure though),
>> >
>> > Indeed. Programs under 9vx can make outgoing connections but
>> > can't accept incoming ones because it doesn't really create a
>> > virtual machine -- 9vx makes the connections on behalf of the
>
> that's wrong. =A09vx can accept connections.
>
>> > program. IIRC there was some additional code to add a proper
>> > ethernet device (via tap or pcap filtering) but I've never
>> > played with it. =A0This program works under p9/qemu because
>
> devon o'dell and i did this. =A0this gives 9vx a full networking
> stack, but it generally requires running as root.

yiyus extended this functionality as part of his SoC project last year
and it's working quite nicely and cross-platform. I'm pretty sure the
code is available in both his and Ron's hg repos of 9vx.

--dho

> - erik
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