[Qemu-devel] amd pcnet driver (was Re: qemu and solaris)

[Paul Jakma]

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Paul Jakma wrote:

> - I've had better luck with Andrew's patch to add support for AMD PCNet 
> emulation (Solaris provides it's own PCNet driver, pcn). This works, and ICMP 
> between solaris and host works, however I can not telnet or ssh to the host, 
> nor does DNS work within the host. If i snoop the 'pcn0' interface in 
> solaris, it prints errors of the form:
>
>         'IP truncated: header missing X bytes'
>
> Where X is typically 10, 12,14 or 17. Not had a chance to debug this further.

Note that packets sent by the qemu host via the pcnet driver and out 
to the real host appear to be fine. It's packets received by the 
emulated host which regularly appear corrupted in some indeterminate 
way (i dont seem to be able to capture the corrupted packets, as seen 
by the qemu host, with snoop :( - snoop prints errors but i cant get 
it to actually log the malformed packets :( ).

I inserted a hex_dump() in pcnet_receive() (just before the 
PRINT_PKTHDR() define inside #ifdef PCNET_DEBUG_MATCH) and the data 
logged here matches up exactly with frames captured sent out tun0 by 
tcpdump on the native host - (presuming the extra 4 bytes logged by 
pcnet_receive() are valid ethernet CRC trailer - tcpdump doesnt log 
the CRC), so things are going wrong after the above point AFAICT.

However, many packets from native host -> emulated host are not 
received properly, so networking basically is intolerable.

Unfortunately, I dont know how to debug this further. :(

regards,
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