Accessing the Amiga with uaenet.device
 

Hi All,

I'm tinkering with uaenet.device. After setting the unit to 2 I can access the internet in WinUAE. WinPcap is installed.

I have a hardcoded IP address of 192.168.1.99 in Miami.

Here's the odd thing. From the PC running WinUAE I cannot ping this address (host unreachable). But from my laptop on the same network I can! Definitely working as I can telnet into MiamiTelnetD.

Ideally I would like this working from my main PC because I'm playing around writing some tcp/ip client/server software and Visual Studio is on my PC!

Any network gurus know how I can achieve this? Some kind of ARP setting?

I don't think it can work 100% correctly without having separate physical NIC for WinPCAP/WinUAE.

Would be nice to get this working in an A1200 config to update the WHDLoad slaves.
Is Wincap all that's needed? Do you need any other software running?

Yes, that's all. The trick is finding the correct unit number for uaenet.device.

Thanks Toni, I'll try using a USB WIFI dongle.

I just thought of a workaround. It might be possible to add a static route to force traffic for this address through my router!

If it uses normal TCP/IP stack, bsdsocket.library emulation should be much easier way to do it.

So it would benefit if you can assign NIC to use. (Like VMWare does)

For example, on my laptop, VMWare uses directly my WiFi, while computer is connected through line on docking station.

Is this possible with WinUAE?

This has been asked dozens of time: Need Windows virtual network driver that can be used by external programs. So far it does not seem to exist.

Which of these would you recommend with WinPCap?

Miami
Genesis
AmiTCP

The Amiga is the server. As far as I know bsdsocket does not support incoming connections.

Tried messing around with routes etc but doesn't work. It's not the end of the world, I'll just have to install Visual Studio on my (old, slow) laptop :)

I can't recommend anything. Use what you want, it makes no difference if it is winpcap or something else.

I knew that. It was not answer to your question :)

If you only need one (or few) static ports, you can also use slirp mode with configured open ports.

Why? How?

I was just testing you :laughing

Found a simple solution.
I created a port forward on my router. From my PC I use my router's IP address which forwards the connection to my virtual Amiga. Weird, but it works.

For what it's worth whenever I setup a VM in Windows I always use a dedicated network card.
Multiple VMs can share the same card but if you share a card with Windows you're asking for trouble.