Networking under Mac OS X

I have successfully got networking to work on RPCEmu under OS X (10.9 – Mavericks).

I’ve followed the ‘Networking’ section in the readme-macosx.txt file in Francis Devereux’s RPCEmu 0.8.9beta for OS X.

I found that the critical part is step 3: Start RPCEmu. This must be done in ‘super user’ mode¹, in order to start the tap interface. This can be done from the Terminal with the command
sudo open /Applications/RPCEmu.app (or whatever the path name is on your installation) – and not by just clicking on the RPCEmu icon in the Applications folder.

I’ve also found that it’s useful to stop and start the NAT before running RPCEmu, and to delete the plist file referred to in Francis’s readme.

So to run RPCEmu, I run the following commands in Terminal:
sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.devrx.RPCEmu.plist
sudo rpcemu_dir/scripts/macosx/stopnat en0
sudo rpcemu_dir/scripts/macosx/startnat en0
sudo open /Applications/RPCEmu.app
- where rpcemu_dir is your RPCEmu data folder; I’m using a wired Ethernet connection, hence the use of ‘en0’ in the above commands.
(I’ll get round to putting this into a script file.)

If people think it would be useful to put together a tutorial, let me know.

Mike

fn1:It may also be possible to change the owner of ‘RPCEmu.app’ to ‘root’, but I haven’t tried this.

I’ve never got networking to work with the OS X RPCEmu, so I’d be very interested in a tutorial. From memory everything went as suggested in Francis’ tutorial right up until the end, so it would be good to know if starting RPCEmu in ‘super user’ mode might help with that.

I’m pretty dense when it comes to everything OS X commands, so if you’re able to put together a comprehensive tutorial for dummies, you’d have at least one reader!

I have successfully got networking to work on RPCEmu under OS X (10.9 – Mavericks).

The “successfully” bit of that would be of interest. Networking does start but not for long, it is profoundly unstable, RPCEmu stiffs with this in the Console, “RPCEmu[1099]: Timed out waiting for buffer_cond to be signalled”.

Admittedly, not tried any file transfers, but I’ve been ‘successfully’ connected to t’internet for last 2 hours via Netsurf…

Mike

Admittedly, not tried any file transfers, but I’ve been ‘successfully’ connected to t’internet for last 2 hours via Netsurf…

Try a real task such as email and usenet, NetFetch and MPro here. It has fallen over here fetching from the NAS.

I’ll try email some time. So far, it’s satisfied my curiousity – I can surf t’internet, and download software directly, which is better than going the OS X → HostFS route.

BTW, I’ve put the 4 commands in my OP (without the ‘sudo’ at the beginning of each line) into a script file called ‘RPCEmu_start’ and changed owner to ‘root’ and also changed permissions:
chown root RPCEmu_start
chmod 777 RPCEmu_start
I can then run this file in Terminal to start RPCEmu.

Can anyone advise of a neater way to do this?

Mike