From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Sep 7 19:27:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from maynard.mail.mindspring.net (maynard.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B94A37B424 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 19:27:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vtpr5 (user-33qti7o.dialup.mindspring.com [199.174.200.248]) by maynard.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA06605; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 22:27:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <001b01c0193c$6be3d780$e40ffea9@vt.ny.us> From: "Vladimir Silyaev" To: "Michael Harnois" , "Mattias Pantzare" Cc: References: <200009071609.SAA07463@mother.ludd.luth.se> Subject: Re: vmware2 networking question Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 19:28:04 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To: Michael Harnois Cc: Vladimir Silyaev ; 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