Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 18:09:19 +0200 From: Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se> To: Michael Harnois <mdharnois@home.com> Cc: "Vladimir Silyaev" <vsilyaev@mindspring.com>, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware2 networking question Message-ID: <200009071609.SAA07463@mother.ludd.luth.se> In-Reply-To: Message from Michael Harnois <mdharnois@home.com> of "07 Sep 2000 10:07:08 CDT." <86em2ws0kj.fsf@mharnois.workgroup.net>
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> 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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