[HECnet] TAP, SIMH and Solaris

[Brian Hechinger]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 09:08:45PM +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Ok. So you need a nat-ed "virtual" network, with two interfaces. One for   
the Solaris box, and one for the simh. And your Solaris system needs to   
nat and route traffic to this virtual network.

Exactly.

I'm not sure if Solaris supports that or not, but perhaps someone else   
knows. I haven't played with Solaris in 10 years, so I'm way too rusty   
to say anything more specific here. If I had plenty of time, and a   
Solaris machine to experiment on, I might be able to do this, but time   
and a machine to crash is not something I have around here. :-)

It's changed a bit in the last 10 years as well. :-D

But in theory, it's not that tricky. You need to know how to do NAT   
under Solaris, and you need to know how to set up a virtual network (be   
that with some external program, or if Solaris can bridge interfaces   
together).

Yeah, which is what I'm attempting to do.   I've got two TAP interfaces
bridged together.   One SIMH talkes to, the other Solaris has an IP on.

Can't ping back and forth, however. :(

-brian
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