I have a question for some time - why not use flips as a simple gateway? Maybe it is better than configing the nic to promiscuous mode?

I have made a simple test, and it can work. I think another merit is that we may use the ipsec implentation of linux kernel with flips.

On 5/11/06, Bjoern Doebel <doebel@os.inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote:

> is it possible to connect from an L4Linux process to a FLIPS-based L4
> task using TCP/IP? And if so, how?

Sure. Both, L4Linux and your app need to be compiled without native
hardware support. Instead, use a software network switch like the one
provided by l4/pkg/ore. L4Linux needs to compiled with the ORe driver
and your app needs to send/receive packets through ORe.

ORe also provides a minimal TCP stack in l4/pkg/ore/lib/uip. I don't
know whether Christian Helmuth already finished to add ORe support to
FLIPS - maybe he can give some info about this.