From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 22 10:36:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pop3.psconsult.nl (ps226.psconsult.nl [193.67.147.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 378E037B403 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 10:36:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@pop3.psconsult.nl) Received: (from paul@localhost) by pop3.psconsult.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) id TAA86858 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 19:36:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from paul) Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 19:36:40 +0200 From: Paul Schenkeveld To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Diskless VMware bridge problem Message-ID: <20010722193640.A86752@psconsult.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm trying to get VMware 2 to work on a diskless workstation using a bridged ethernet interface. The system freezes and complains that the NFS server is down when line 7 of the snippet of rc.d/vmware.sh shown below gets executed. 1 if [ X$bridged = XYES ]; then 2 kldstat -v | grep netgraph >/dev/null || kldload netgraph.ko 3 kldstat -v | grep ng_ether >/dev/null || kldload ng_ether.ko 4 kldstat -v | grep ng_bridge >/dev/null || kldload ng_bridge.ko 5 ngctl mkpeer vmnet1: bridge lower link0 6 ngctl name vmnet1:lower vmnet_bridge 7 ngctl connect vmnet_bridge: ${bridge_interface}: link1 lower 8 ngctl connect vmnet_bridge: ${bridge_interface}: link2 upper 9 ngctl msg ${bridge_interface}: setautosrc 0 10 ngctl msg ${bridge_interface}: setpromisc 1 11 ngctl msg vmnet1: setautosrc 0 12 ngctl msg vmnet1: setpromisc 1 13 fi The system is running RELENG_4_3 of 2001/07/21 23:00 UTC, the tap diffs are applied. Root, /usr and /home are NFS mounted and /dev, /etc and /var are mfs mounts (as set up by rc.diskless[12]). What puzzles me most is that everything is running fine when I do exactly the same on the same machine with a harddisk (same kernel and userland). I really need bridging for this virtual machine and I'd be very unhappy to put a disk into the machine or make root a memory disk. Any ideas out there? Need more info? Let me know. Thanks in advance, Paul Schenkeveld To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message