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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:07:51 -0800
From:      Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>
Cc:        The Babbler <bts@babbleon.org>, John Sellens <jsellens@generalconcepts.com>, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vmware networking - really sysmouse complaints
Message-ID:  <3AAD64D7.4030007@quack.kfu.com>
References:  <200103112208.f2BM88L85365@gc0.generalconcepts.com> <20010311221123.B1541@tao.org.uk> <3AABF9DF.5E3C6E1F@babbleon.org> <20010311222703.C1541@tao.org.uk> <3AAC221F.1731699F@elischer.org>

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Julian Elischer wrote:

> Josef Karthauser wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 05:19:11PM -0500, The Babbler wrote:
>> 
>>> I changed mine to use /dev/pcm0 and I still get the complaints.  Not
>>> that big a deal, just a minor annoyance. The fact that I can't get
>>> networking working is more of a problem . . .
>>> 
>> I don't know if you're using bridging or not... I've had problem today
>> with vmware and bridging and it was because the external interface (aue0
>> in my case) wasn't in promiscious mode for some reason!  I managed to
>> fake it by running a 'tcpdump -i aue0' in the background.  I'm sure
>> there's an easier way to put the interface into promiscious mode.  I'm
>> not sure what it is though.
> 
> 
> ngctl msg aue0: setpromisc 1

Remember, the bridging functionality also requires

ngctl msg aue0: setautosrc 0

This causes the interface to not override the source Ethernet address. 
If you don't do this, your host and guest won't be separate machines to 
everyone else on the net. :-)



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