kern/63746: vmnet0 makes vmnet4096

Kaho Toshikazu kaho at easy.es.tuat.ac.jp
Thu Mar 4 00:20:04 PST 2004


>Number:         63746
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       vmnet0 makes vmnet4096
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Mar 04 00:20:04 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Kaho Toshikazu
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
TUAT Japan
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD easy.es.tuat.ac.jp 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #34: Fri Feb 27 11:25:27 JST 2004 kaho at easy.es.tuat.ac.jp:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/EASY i386


	
>Description:
 if_tap.ko is loaded to use VMware and creats vmnet network interface.
`echo -n /dev/vmnet0` makes vmnet4096 instead of vmnet0.

>How-To-Repeat:
  load if_tap.ko and creat vmnet0 or vmnet1 etc.

>Fix:
 I don't know appropriate way, but this patch make better situation.
--- if_tap.c~   Sun Feb 29 18:45:39 2004
+++ if_tap.c    Thu Mar  4 14:46:20 2004
@@ -76,3 +76,7 @@
 #define TAPMAXUNIT     0x7fff
+#if 0
 #define VMNET_DEV_MASK CLONE_FLAG0
+#else
+#define VMNET_DEV_MASK 0x800000
+#endif



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