Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:19:02 +0100 From: Marc Fonvieille <fonvi@easynet.fr> To: David Dooley <dpd@ngfl.gov.uk> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMWare and Bridged networking. Message-ID: <20011128131902.A20875@gothic.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <200111281132.fASBW2b38866@card.ngfl.gov.uk>; from dpd@ngfl.gov.uk on Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:32:01AM %2B0000 References: <200111281132.fASBW2b38866@card.ngfl.gov.uk>
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On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:32:01AM +0000, David Dooley wrote: > vmnet1: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> > mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 > ether 00:bd:b5:0e:00:01 > > I am not too sure what the IP address is or where it was gleaned from > because the network I am on, in fact is, 193.63.51.64/26. The IP > address may be a red herring as it would appear that the vmnet and > the host interface are both running in promiscuous mode - > > lnc0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu > 1500 > inet 193.63.51.95 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast 193.63.51.127 > ether 00:06:29:50:2f:a6 > > If any one can shed some light on these thoughts and enlighten me I > would be most appreciative. > At vmware build you chose netgraph bridging, and then it ask you for an interface and an ip: you have to give the interface used to access to the lan (lnc0 in your case) and give an FREE ip from your subnet. > In addition to the above, when I try and power on a configured vmware > instance it moans that it cannot access /dev/vmnet0. This would be > true as there is no vmnet0 interface any where on the system that I > can find, but I can find a /compat/linux/dev/vmnet1. Be sure that you chose "host-only" in vmware configuration and not "bridged", even with bridging to have to use "host-only" in vmware. Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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