[HECnet] SIMH on FreeBSD 9 and tap

[Cory Smelosky]

On Sun, 19 May 2013, Brian Hechinger wrote:


Eth: opened OS device tap1
Eth: Error Transmitting packet: Network is down
You may need to run as root, or install a libpcap version
which is at least 0.9 from your OS vendor or www.tcpdump.org
Eth: Error Transmitting packet: Network is down
You may need to run as root, or install a libpcap version
which is at least 0.9 from your OS vendor or www.tcpdump.org
XQ: MAC Address Conflict on LAN for address 08:00:2B:AA:BB:CC, change
the MAC address to a unique value
Eth: closed tap1
vax.ini> attach xq tap1
Unit not attachable

Ideas? From what I can determine, FreeBSD 9 ships with libpcap 1.2.1 (at
least as of a year ago).

I never used TUN/TAP on FreeBSD...I always added extra virtual NICs and used BPF there.


-brian


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