[Virtualacorn-list] VA and ROOL 5.nn

Dave Symes dave at triffid.co.uk
Fri Sep 13 13:03:33 BST 2013


In article <mpro.mt2amn001p1pj02bw at wingsandbeaks.org.uk.invalid>,
   Jeremy Nicoll - ml virtualacorn <jn.ml.vac.83 at wingsandbeaks.org.uk>
wrote:
> David Pitt <pittdj at pittdj.co.uk> wrote:

> > I know a bit about it as well now! I attempted to get RPCemu
> > networking on Windows 7, it did not work, I could not ping the gateway
> > from RISC OS. This was something of a disappoint but rather worse was
> > that, as said above, VRPC also stopped working, it would have needed
> > re-authenticating at least. At this point I did the only decent thing
> > and gave up.

> Can you both clarify this: do you mean that just the act of installing
> RPCemu breaks a VRPC install?  

> Or do you mean that when RPCemu is running it does something to the
> networking environment that means VRPC no longer sees the MAC of the
> network interface it's licenced to run with - so VRPC can't run at the
> same time. And if it's this, once RPCemu is stopped (and perhaps the
> real machine rebooted to revert the network environment to normal?) will
> VRPC not then run as it originally did?

The RPCEmu bridge is the problem, VRPC sees *it* not the network card...
If you switch the bridge off, then VRPC can once again see the network
card to which it's locked... VRPC will work again.

Dave

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Dave Triffid




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