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Date:      Sun, 18 Feb 2001 19:33:10 +0000
From:      Darren Evans <darren@horseplay.demon.co.uk>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vmware 2 bridged networking
Message-ID:  <5.0.2.1.1.20010218192444.032a6b20@pop3.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20010218081904.E5280@arrakis.desert-power.org>
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Mark,

Hmmm did'nt do the trick.  I noticed my IP address is listed on the
vmnet1 interface and not xe0, presumably this should not be the case.
If it is, how does this work?  Maybe someone else could share their
"vmware + FreeBSD" network settings.

# ifconfig -a
lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
faith0: flags=8000<MULTICAST> mtu 1500
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
gif1: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
gif2: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
gif3: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7
         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 552
vmnet1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         inet 192.168.254.210 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.254.255
         inet6 fe80::2bd:a5ff:fe04:1%vmnet1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xa
         ether 00:bd:a5:04:00:01
xe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         inet 192.168.254.205 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.254.255
         inet6 fe80::210:a4ff:fed2:6cf7%xe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xb
         ether 00:10:a4:d2:6c:f7
         media: autoselect (10baseT/UTP)
         supported media: autoselect 10baseT/UTP 100baseTX

# netstat -rn
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use     Netif Expire
default            192.168.254.254    UGSc        0        0   vmnet1
127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH          1       42      lo0
192.168.254        link#10            UC          0        0   vmnet1 =>
192.168.254.205    link#10            UHLW        0        4   vmnet1 =>
192.168.254.254    link#10            UHLW        1        2   vmnet1 =>

Internet6:
Destination                       Gateway                       Flags 
Netif Expire
::1                               ::1                           UH          lo0
fe80::%lo0/64                     fe80::1%lo0                   Uc          lo0
fe80::%vmnet1/64                  link#10                       UC       vmnet1
fe80::%xe0/64                     link#11                       UC          xe0
ff01::/32                         ::1                           U           lo0
ff02::%lo0/32                     fe80::1%lo0                   UC          lo0
ff02::%vmnet1/32                  link#10                       UC       vmnet1
ff02::%xe0/32                     link#11                       UC          xe0


At 08:19 18/02/01 -0500, Mark B. Withers wrote:
>Darren,
>
>If you issue an
>
>ifconfig -a
>
>command, does it say "noarp" on your xe0 interface?
>
>If so you can eneble it with
>
>ifconfig xe0 arp

>On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 06:01:45PM -0500, Darren Evans wrote:
> >
> > FreeBSD box  192.168.254.205 xe0
> > vmnet1           192.168.254.210 vmnet1
> > Gateway        192.168.254.254 default
> >
> > After installing bridged networking within vmware2 I cannot
> > access my default gateway.
> >
> > I can ping vmnet1 but not "xe0" or the "default gateway".
> >
> > arp -a does nothing.
> >
> > sudo route add 192.168.254.254 default does nothing either.
> >
> > I have seen this.
> > 
> http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/networking_linux.html#changemac

> > I think the issue is to do with not finding a MAC address for xe0 because
> > vmware2 has "clashed?" somehow.
> >
> > To sum up, vmware no longer runs and has taken apart my networking.




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