DOSemu networking made easy

Mateusz Viste <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-msdos
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi all,

I'm happily using DOSemu since a long time now, and the one thing that 
has always been bothering me is the complicated networking settings. 
Playing with bridging and masquerading and transforming the host into a 
routing machine is usually fine on a home desktop PC, but it becomes a 
real pain on a laptop which, by nature, often change it's network 
settings and physical locations.

This is why I wrote a tool to make DOSemu networking much easier (at 
least from my POV): taprouter.
taprouter is a user-mode application that acts like a router for DOSemu, 
and handles the internet access by using the host's networking, using 
SLIRP as a backend (a purist might say that taprouter is more like an 
ethernet-to-SLIP-bridge-with-DHCP-and-ARP-proxy rather than a 'router'). 
It delivers network settings to DOSemu via DHCP, so there's no 
configuration needed on the DOSemu side.

The thing is available for download (along with documentation) at the 
link below:

  http://www.viste-family.net/mateusz/software/taprouter/

I hope it will prove useful to anyone (else than me). :)

cheers,
Mateusz Viste
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