Re: pkg/51970: Ethernet (libpcap) support not compiled in

[Hans Rosenfeld <hans%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/51970; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Hans Rosenfeld <hans%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: Rin Okuyama <rokuyama%rk.phys.keio.ac.jp@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, coypu%SDF.ORG@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/51970: Ethernet (libpcap) support not compiled in
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 17:09:57 +0100

 Thanks Rin. 
 
 Can you please add the output of the "show ethernet" command in simh?
 IIRC tap networking doesn't use pcap at all, and on a system with real
 pcap networking that command will list the available devices that pcap
 can use. This is what it looks like in a zone on my OmniOS system:
 
 sim> show ethernet
 ETH devices:
  eth0   pkgsrc0                              (No description available)
  eth1   nat:{optional-nat-parameters}        (Integrated NAT (SLiRP) support)
  eth2   udp:sourceport:remotehost:remoteport (Integrated UDP bridge support)
 
 Here pkgsrc0 is the name of an interface, a vnic in this case.
 
 
 Apart from that it's interesting that the simh makefile detects all the
 other stuff on NetBSD. Perhaps we should patch the makefile to simplify
 this for all platforms. I'm not sure I have time for that now, so
 perhaps you could make those variables conditional on the operating
 system instead of ripping them out?
 
 
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