Re: [MirageOS-devel] outgoing tcp connections

[Richard Mortier <Richard.Mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 18 Jun 2014, at 13:51, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Another (related) issue is when using tap and no dhcp, I've to be fast
>> between executing the client and assigning a IP address in the
>> hostsystem for tap0 (whenever an application is started, the host
>> system IP gets removed) in order to reply to ARP to the mirage stack.
> 
> Hrm yes, doing bridge setup is something I'm not keen on putting
> into our tools.  Ideally, we would use persistent tunnels that could
> be set up by external tools and then attached to by the Unix unikernel.

what was the rationale for not doing this again? 

>  However, there is a light on this horizon, as I
> discovered that MacOS X 10.10-beta has the vmnet framework installed
> by default, which finally gives us bridging support there without needing
> the installing of OSXtuntap.  I'll write bindings when I get a chance...

sweet :)

-- 
Cheers,

R.

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