From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 20 0: 2:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E33037B405 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 00:02:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.microcell.ca (gatekeeper.microcell.ca [205.151.8.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01E6F43EF2 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 00:02:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from SoHo@admin.fido.ca) Received: from mailserv.microcell.ca (mailserv.microcell.ca [10.2.0.87]) by gatekeeper.microcell.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59C5316CB2 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 03:02:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailserv.microcell.ca (Postfix) with SMTP id 19F2316BC3 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 03:02:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from lenard.admin.fido.ca (lamus.fido.ca [10.0.1.45]) by mailserv.microcell.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6413916BC3 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 03:02:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from magni.microcell.ca (magni.microcell.ca [10.6.22.102]) by lenard.admin.fido.ca (SMTP_Gateway) with ESMTP id 331C747F94 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 03:02:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from magni.microcell.ca (localhost.microcell.ca [127.0.0.1]) by magni.microcell.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBK84ePK002083 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 03:04:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from SoHo@admin.fido.ca) Received: (from ebaroud@localhost) by magni.microcell.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBJLmckt000563 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 16:48:38 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: magni.microcell.ca: ebaroud set sender to SoHo@admin.fido.ca using -f Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 16:48:38 -0500 From: Edmond Baroud To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: General bridging information Message-ID: <20021219214838.GA454@admin.fido.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: Microcell X-URL: http://www.fido.ca/ X-Sanitizer: This message has been sanitized! X-Sanitizer-Rev: $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.25 2001/09/04 15:49:11 bre Exp $ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I had bridge_cfg set to xl0:0,vmnet1:0 and bridge to 1 on 4.5-STABLE and it was working fine, but the only problem I had was that I couldn't ping my FreeBSD's xl0 IP from the vmware/win2k, both OSes were unable to talk to eachother using any protocol. (AFAIK..) Now on 4.7 bridge_cfg is null and ether.bridge=0, my vmware is working AND also able to see my xl0 IP. I recently noticed that the netgraph control utility creates a node at startup by the vmware.sh script; ngctl list: Name: ngctl545 Type: socket ID: 0000000f Num hooks: 0 Name: vmnet_bridge Type: bridge ID: 00000004 Num hooks: 3 Name: vmnet1 Type: ether ID: 00000002 Num hooks: 1 Name: xl0 Type: ether ID: 00000001 Num hooks: 2 My questions is: was my routing problem between the two OSes caused by this? and was I conflicting the bridge in anyway by linking it manually (xl0:0,vmnet1:0) while it was controlled by netgraph? thanks, Ed. -- Edmond Baroud UNIX Systems Admin mailto:SoHo@admin.fido.ca Fingerprint 140F 5FD5 3FDD 45D9 226D 9602 8C3D EAFB 4E19 BEF9 "UNIX is very user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message