[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v3 14/14] dm: eth: Add a bridge to a real network for sandbox

[Joe Hershberger]

Hi Simon,

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:02 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Joe,
>
> On 16 February 2015 at 22:16, Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > Hi Simon,
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Joe,
> >>
> >> On 10 February 2015 at 18:30, Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger at ni.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Implement a bridge between u-boot's network stack and Linux's raw
packet
> >> > API allowing the sandbox to send and receive packets using the host
> >> > machine's network interface.
> >> >
> >> > This raw Ethernet API requires elevated privileges.  You can either
run
> >> > as root, or you can add the capability needed like so:
> >> >
> >> > sudo /sbin/setcap "CAP_NET_RAW+ep" u-boot
> >>
> >> Can you add a note about thsi in README.sandbox? This seems like a
> >> major new feature. It was talked about a few years ago when sandbox
> >> was first created.
> >
> > OK.  Can you maybe point me to that conversation so I can understand
what
> > was anticipated potentially covering more of what was expected.
>
> All I could find was this:
>
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/108687

I dug around and found this too:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/118685

It seems it was more complicated to setup, but may have other benefits
(such as being more likely to be able to change MAC address settings
eventually).

[snip]

Cheers,
-Joe