From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 24 12: 1:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8588B37B424 for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 12:01:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4OJ13L04359; Thu, 24 May 2001 15:01:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200105241901.f4OJ13L04359@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: y3k@gti.net Cc: dochawk@psu.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: safely briding from internet to 'localnet' In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 May 2001 18:36:32 GMT." <20010524183632.D4ADA1459A6@apollo.gti.net> From: dochawk@psu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 15:01:03 -0400 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 mark meandered > Hm. I'm using windows in vmware. I know you have to define a default route > on the vmware side (in linux). That should be something like: > route add default 192.168.0.1 (or whatever vmnet1 shows up as in freebsd). It takes about a minute, and comes back with default: Host name lookup failure > Also, i'm not sure, but I think you need to assign an ip address to > eth0. I dont know the exact command in linux, but its something like > > ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 > ^^^^^^^^^^--linux's ethernet address in vmware this already seems to be happening: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:BD:53:D1:DB:43 inet addr:192.168.0.200 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:72 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:936 (936.0 b) TX bytes:5040 (4.9 Kb) Interrupt:9 Base address:0x1000 Maybe my freebsd isn't playing gateway like it should be? how can I check that? thanks hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message