For more information, including explanations of the networking and
sample configurations, see
- <http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/networking.html>.
+ <http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/old/networking.html>.
If you'd like to be able to enable networking in the User-Mode
linux environment, say Y; otherwise say N. Note that you must
CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV configured as Y or M.
For more information, see
- <http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/networking.html> That site
+ <http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/old/networking.html> That site
has examples of the UML command line to use to enable Ethertap
networking.
To use this, your host must support slip devices.
For more information, see
- <http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/networking.html>. That site
+ <http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/old/networking.html>.
has examples of the UML command line to use to enable slip
networking, and details of a few quirks with it.
networking daemon on the host.
For more information, see
- <http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/networking.html> That site
+ <http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/old/networking.html> That site
has examples of the UML command line to use to enable Daemon
networking.
more than one without conflict. If you don't need UML networking,
say N.
+config UML_NET_VDE
+ bool "VDE transport"
+ depends on UML_NET
+ help
+ This User-Mode Linux network transport allows one or more running
+ UMLs on a single host to communicate with each other and also
+ with the rest of the world using Virtual Distributed Ethernet,
+ an improved fork of uml_switch.
+
+ You must have libvdeplug installed in order to build the vde
+ transport into UML.
+
+ To use this form of networking, you will need to run vde_switch
+ on the host.
+
+ For more information, see <http://wiki.virtualsquare.org/>
+ That site has a good overview of what VDE is and also examples
+ of the UML command line to use to enable VDE networking.
+
+ If you need UML networking with VDE,
+ say Y.
+
config UML_NET_MCAST
bool "Multicast transport"
depends on UML_NET
To use this, your host kernel(s) must support IP Multicasting.
For more information, see
- <http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/networking.html> That site
+ <http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/old/networking.html> That site
has examples of the UML command line to use to enable Multicast
networking, and notes about the security of this approach.
installed in order to build the pcap transport into UML.
For more information, see
- <http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/networking.html> That site
+ <http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/old/networking.html> That site
has examples of the UML command line to use to enable this option.
If you intend to use UML as a network monitor for the host, say