Re: [MirageOS-devel] outgoing tcp connections

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19 Jun 2014, at 14:48, Richard Mortier <Richard.Mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> 
> 
> 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? 
> 

MacOS doesn't support persistent tuns. Which is why I mentioned the next bit 
... :)

>> 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...
> 
> 

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