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From: Lucio De Re <lucio.dere@gmail.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Raw ethernet on 9vx
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 16:35:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJQ9t7hb5y+w5HUHOJz5U6K0mdsZ9F2HNSD-FmfmtwbdyJAEjQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16074972350.fF34.73931@composer.9fans.topicbox.com>

On 12/9/20, remywang@cs.washington.edu <remywang@cs.washington.edu> wrote:
>
> [ ... ]
You're brave!

> And several details:
> 1. I had to hard-code the tap device name "tap5" because `ip tuntap ...`
> doesn't return the interface name.
> 2. I have no idea what 0.0.0.0 is, or where to pass it in. (tried `ip link
> set tap5 up address 0.0.0.0` but it complained the address was too short).
>
Even if the interface name is not returned (which usually means the
powers that be have found a more sensible, but totally novel way to
make it available), you should really set

iface=tap5

or even

export iface=tap5

and save a lot of editing later.

If "0.0.0.0" is too short, the chances are "0.0.0.0/0" may be the valid form.

0.0.0.0[/0] is more a place holder (a bit like NULL) than a real IP address.

That said, I am still trying to get my head around creating tap
devices for VMs, in the new lingo (or in the old) even though my
TCP/IP experience goes back to 1990. But then I think the RFCs at that
stage were still below one thousand.

Lucio.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-09 14:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-07  6:26 remywang
2020-12-07 23:38 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2020-12-08  5:55   ` remywang
2020-12-08  7:12     ` Devon H. O'Dell
2020-12-08  7:45       ` Lucio De Re
2020-12-08  9:06   ` Devon H. O'Dell
2020-12-08  9:20     ` David du Colombier
2020-12-08 13:00       ` hiro
2020-12-09  0:34         ` remywang
2020-12-09  7:00           ` remywang
2020-12-09 12:46             ` Stuart Morrow
2020-12-09 14:35             ` Lucio De Re [this message]
2020-12-09 15:29               ` remywang
2020-12-09 19:03                 ` Lucio De Re

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