Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 19:28:04 -0700 From: "Vladimir Silyaev" <vsilyaev@mindspring.com> To: "Michael Harnois" <mdharnois@home.com>, "Mattias Pantzare" <pantzer@ludd.luth.se> Cc: <emulation@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: vmware2 networking question Message-ID: <001b01c0193c$6be3d780$e40ffea9@vt.ny.us> References: <200009071609.SAA07463@mother.ludd.luth.se>
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It's not so hard to get a bridging bettween only two ethernet adapters - you have just to specify so called 'bridge groups'. See bridge(4) for more info. If you could test how FreeBSD bridging works in such configuration it'll be just great. ---- Vladimir ----- Original Message ----- From: Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se> To: Michael Harnois <mdharnois@home.com> Cc: Vladimir Silyaev <vsilyaev@mindspring.com>; <emulation@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 9:09 AM Subject: Re: vmware2 networking question > > Yes, but you asked for a situation where vmware does not work with > > bridging enabled and does work when it's not. This is such a > > situation, and that *does* have to do with vmware. > > > > Furthermore, you can't possibly have an ip address assigned only at > > one adapter. That negates the entire point of having two ethernet > > cards, which is, in turn, the point of bridging. > > No, you do not have to have an ip adressed assigned to both adapters if you are > doing bridging. You do not need to assign any ip address at all to do > bridging. A normal ethernet switch is doing bridging. > > The problem is simply that the vmware port enables bridging among all your > adapters, even if you do not use bridging normaly. That is very wrong. > > The vmware port shoud ask the user for the adapter that is to be used for > vmware and enable bridging only between that adapter and the vmware-adapter. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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