[Netkit.users] Tap Interface in Netkit Lab

Massimo Rimondini rimondin at dia.uniroma3.it
Sat Feb 2 13:09:33 CET 2008


Hi Michele,

both answers apply.

First, there is something improper in your configuration. In fact, you
cannot choose a collision domain on your own for TAP interfaces. Therefore,
the line router1[0]="A" is redundant, and indeed should be removed from your
lab.conf. The reason why Netkit does not detect the redundancy is that lines
in lab.conf that specify interfaces with an explicit name ([eth0]) are
simply considered as vstart command line arguments, and therefore are not
matched against interfaces specified with the standard syntax ([0]).

Second, your configuration reveals a bug which, fortunately, does not affect
your specific setting. At present, tap interfaces with a numbering higher
than 0 are not properly set up. In general, this should not be critical,
however I attach a patch that fixes the problem. To apply it, enter
$NETKIT_HOME and run 'patch -p1 < tap-not-first.diff'.

P.S. With the latest version of Netkit, TAP interfaces too can be configured
using the standard syntax for interface specification in lab.conf.
Therefore, I suggest to replace
router1[eth0]=tap,10.0.0.1,10.0.0.2
with
router1[0]=tap,10.0.0.1,10.0.0.2

Regards,
Massimo.


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> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 12:31 PM
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> Subject: [Netkit.users] Tap Interface in Netkit Lab
> 
> I've some trouble to start a Netkit Lab with vm_s that have tap
> interface configured at the start up to be capable to internet
> navigate.
> 
> I configure in lab.conf file the interested vm as follow:
> 
> router1[0]="A"
> router1[1]="B"
> router1[eth0]=tap,10.0.0.1,10.0.0.2
> 
> When the router1 vm start, only the normal network interface come up
> with the address specified in router1.startup file. The tap interface
> instead doesn't go up and I can't navigate in internet with this vm.
> 
> I want to know if this is a my bad configuration or if there is a bug
> in the lab start up when is present a vm with tap interface
> pre-configured.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Michele Di Mascolo
> Specialistic Graduating in Telecommunications Engineering
> @ Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"
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