net tapping or sheeping on disk-image-based Mol?

Zachery Bir mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Fri, 9 Aug 2002 09:48:39 -0400


The user guide mentions that you may set up network with either a tap or
a sheep, but that it may be necessary to reboot into "real" Mac OS to
set the device properly in the TCP/IP control panel. I'm using the
disk-image Mol that seanano described here:

  <URL:http://lists.linuxppc.org/mol-general/200008/msg00014.html>

And, so, there's no way to reboot into "real" Mac OS.

Is anyone successfully passing networking through to the
disk-image-based Mol?

from the User Guide:
"There are many different ways to set up the networking. The simplest
 case is when the host is attached to an ethernet network using static IP
 numbers. In this case, it is easiest to use the sheep_net driver:

   netdev:   eth0   -sheep

 With this configuration it is necessary that MacOS and linux are
 configured to use different IP-numbers on the same subnet. Ask your
 system administrator for a free IP-number. The configuration might
 look something like:

             Linux:              MOL/MacOS:
   IP        192.168.0.2         192.168.0.3  
   Netmask:  255.255.255.0       255.255.255.0
   Gateway:  192.168.0.1         192.168.0.1  

 It should be possible to ping MacOS from Linux. If it doesn't work,
 something is wrong. Open the TCP/IP control panel and check the
 settings. After the "real" MacOS has been booted, it might be
 necessary to open the control panel and select "Ethernet" because
 MacOS sees a difference between MOL-ethernet and built-in ethernet.

 AppleTalk should work out-of-the-box using when the sheep_net
 ethernet driver is used. (Make sure "ethernet" is selected in the
 AppleTalk control panel)."