<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jul 29, 2011, at 3:53 PM, Tom Tasche wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hello,<br><br>Some colleagues and I are working on a networking related software<br> for our diploma thesis.<br>Basically we want to connect Cisco's PacketTracer to a real network<br> (that's actually not our diploma thesis, but it's one part of it)<br> and therefore need to bridge a physical interface <br> for receiving and sending ethernet packets with different mac addresses.<br><br>We have tried to use the socket library on linux,<br> but it doesn't work on every NIC to fake the MAC address.<br>Now we want to extract that code out of VirtualBox. <br>However, we couldn't find that pieces of code<br> in VirtualBox's 270MB of awesome source sauce.<br>Would you guys be so kind and help us?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>sure, no problem. </div><div><br></div><div>You'll find the core network components here:</div></div>src/VBox/Devices/Network/SrvIntNetR0.cpp (the switch/hub)<div>src/VBox/HostDrivers/VBoxNetFlt/ (the network code interfacing the kernel)<br></div><div><br></div><div>Standalone programs using the network components:<br><div>src/VBox/Devices/Network/testcase/tstIntNet-1.cpp (check out the -S option)</div><div>src/VBox/NetworkServices/DHCP/VBoxNetDHCP.cpp (another example)</div><div><br></div><div><div>
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