5 Sep
2004
5 Sep
'04
11:43 a.m.
David Holland wrote:
Cause SIMH does it's networking things (currently)
by packet sniffing,
and most OS's don't want everyone sniffing packets, (Particularly the
ones w/ passwords in them.) ergo, you must be 'root' to sniff packets.
David
Have you seen how User Mode Linux handles this? IIRC you can run a
userspace kernel, and have it talk to a networking daemon which runs as
root. Obviously this gives you a lot more fine-grained control over
what the UML kernel actually sees - great for honeypots, because from
"outside" it looks just like an ordinary running Linux kernel.
Gordon.