Subject: Re: vmware lance emulation
To: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
List: tech-net
Date: 03/25/2002 01:14:27
In some email I received from itojun@iijlab.net, sie wrote:
> vmware lance emulation has bug in multicast (it copies outgoing
> multicast datagram to inbound path, which should not happen), and
> if netbsd is run as guest OS (on top of vmware) it will fail to
> perform IPv6 duplicated-address-detection. did the problem solved?
> (i don't use vmware myself)
> if not, i would like to put an workaround, as shown below:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/lnc/if_lnc.c.diff?r1=1.80&r2=1.81
Do you see the same problem with the pcn driver?
Apparently the lance driver isn't the best one to use with vmware.
Darren