From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Jul 31 17:13:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5C5937BD69 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:13:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA24188; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 20:13:40 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200007312111.RAA00472@pobox.engeast.BayNetworks.COM> References: <200007312111.RAA00472@pobox.engeast.BayNetworks.COM> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 20:13:46 -0400 To: Robert Withrow , Nick Sayer From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Bridged networking with vmware Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, bwithrow@engeast.BayNetworks.COM Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 5:11 PM -0400 7/31/00, Robert Withrow wrote: >Hi: > >:- After loading the module (either vmnet_bridge.ko or if_tap.ko) > >In what port does vmnet_bridge.ko exist? > >I'm running the "standard" FreeBSD port of VMWARE (/usr/ports/.../vmware1) >with the Makefile having version 1.19, and there doesn't seem to be >any vmnet_bridge.ko built. > >It is very confusing there being all these different ports. I think vmware1 is just there for people who have bought the vmware1 license, and who have not wanted to buy a license for vmware2 (not yet, at least). Which is to say, vmware1 is pretty much frozen in time, just there for historical purposes. It's the vmware2 port which is seeing all the activity, as near as I can tell. As for vmware2, that seems to be moving so fast that it almost always requires that you're running 4-stable. (I just upgraded to the latest vmware port on my machine, which broke vmware2 because my OS level is a 4-stable from about three weeks ago). A little frustrating, to be sure, but I do appreciate all the improvements which are being made. I *was* going to run linux to use vmware, but redhat 6.2 seems to have trouble with my hardware. freebsd works fine on the hardware, so the better vmware2 port works, the happier I am... :-) --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message