[Netkit.users] tap device

[Robert Sebunnya]

Thanks a lot , I have set up the permitions as sujjested but it does not 
work yet.Wonder what I am doing wrong. 

Gianni Costanzi writes: 

> On 12/23/06, Robert Sebunnya <rsebunya a dicts.mak.ac.ug> wrote:
>> hello, good afternoon ,
>> I have setup netkit virtual machines on my host machines and they can
>> intercommunicate  very well.However I am not able to connect any of the
>> virtual machines to the host machines by tap devices.
>> When I set up the tap device there is no error, whatsoever but I cant get
>> the host machine or virtual machine to ping each other,
>> Any help will be highly appreciated.
> 
> Are you able to configure the interface of the virtual machine (with
> ifconfig) or do you receive some error, like "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Permission
> denied"? One of the my frequent mistakes is forgetting to give
> read/write permissions to the /dev/net/tun device on the host machine
> (chmod 0666 /dev/net/tun).. I must precise that I do not use netkit
> but directly UML.. 
> 
> Bye,
> Gianni 
> 
>> 
>> Robert Sebunnya
>> Network Operations Center
>> Makerere University
>> Tel:+256-772-308-999 
>> 
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Robert Sebunnya
Network Operations Center
Makerere University
Tel:+256-772-308-999