From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 14 14:41:21 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 083221065673 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:41:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from afiddler10@yahoo.com) Received: from web31603.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web31603.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.149]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C3DF58FC0A for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:41:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 42175 invoked by uid 60001); 14 Apr 2011 14:41:20 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1302792080; bh=mT17txnQBa1imCTV4ii66tQ0ClAg/lKOs3EBwXIaZcU=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=ztv6+tSCYgYirwEp+zS12UYwSR6ASBEQU5OD1t0MCc8mzAlX94prq0V67bTgwkYZYVsn969h5+4SuTTMElwQGxLKrNMi0SwgXb8GsdRtD47lCNgc9OX2kxbzRQzhR1nQcd4ouxofYYot92y2uexTSz33VJ/TDgJWCDOi3AXepNQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=0dz+tDCaYpnTbw4x+R9LBWDvVsWiBPdZbizTnntKjJiGlqD/Pt05JX7HLNOWvQ80NZFg1ShUdff4JO95Xa8LWfdb1cSgyGMmmI13EcRMqHeZuX/gZJdDz/qKgx1hRyqPV1zWT9HmbS57V64scXPiYSjIEz5J6Z8xtn4nGkxWRlI=; Message-ID: <93190.40330.qm@web31603.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: zp2wRrsVM1nbBiy8REQUsO78jrPrQJz07jMLN4njPAdzpgG 1PFfVI7EESxXeH8CzbmyCZCSu4raUaWIixZParMHgMUayM5k59YcZULpnIh6 RAhJrtbxfyd48DNkjLQubzTr8fSooUPS_ICvvf37UTb8XrQSubF3Lp3hJDBe r3E50mSJWSLsr5PzQLwbZ_OFUvf5P5DdWUEumQ..r0qRnSmHICx3uYmQBMgs _vUlyr3EfJyrfK8kwxflT.NU665CGfXkS1zOg4f1FxEa9lBvsDbipNHnPAez GPMajANOGN4YwX8Z8ES9HRAaDxMVWjoNh3qELSxjvAOkqg9Lim0dBT071fl6 c9t4pGkC3RlMtrPeIwSgFrqS1gzMVmRGo0kTt9mdipsMpRnPJP.VTAmmSLis ETTW8nrMELwKWF3w- Received: from [174.102.149.160] by web31603.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:41:19 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/12.0.2 YahooMailWebService/0.8.109.295617 Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:41:19 -0700 (PDT) From: afiddler10 To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:25:26 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Two questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:41:21 -0000 Yesterday I received some very helpful advice from your technician.=A0 I ho= pe you can answer these two questions today! =A0 I am trying to configure Freebsd so that I can access it from my host PC, w= hich is Windows 7.=A0 Yesterday the technician told me to configure bridgin= g in VMware when I created the virtual Freebsd server.=A0 This worked fine,= but I'm wondering if there is a way to configure this outside of VMware.= =A0 I tried this on a Freebsd v8.2: =A0 ifconfig bridge create ifconfig bridge0 addm em0 addm em1 up=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 #interf= ace names are em0 and em1 =A0 But it did not work.=A0 I assigned an IP address to em0 but could not acces= s it from my Windows 7 host, although I could ping that address from the vi= rtual server (TCP/IP stack was working).=A0 Is there something else I need = to do to get this to work? =A0 My second question is that this command is not in an older version of Freeb= sd that I am using, v4.11.=A0 Do you have other commands to create a bridge= d interface on this version? =A0 Thanks for your help!