From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Nov 28 4:17:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from smarthost2.mail.easynet.fr (smarthost2.mail.easynet.fr [212.180.1.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66BF637B416 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 04:17:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.mail.easynet.fr (slb-1-sippriv.mail.easynet.fr [10.0.1.57]) by smarthost2.mail.easynet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB15EB907; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:17:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (unknown [212.11.50.35]) by smtp1.mail.easynet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0023FB6A4; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:17:18 +0100 (CET) Received: (from marc@localhost) by gothic.blackend.org (8.11.6/8.11.6/ - 31/07/01) id fASCJ2520912; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:19:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:19:02 +0100 From: Marc Fonvieille To: David Dooley Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMWare and Bridged networking. Message-ID: <20011128131902.A20875@gothic.blackend.org> References: <200111281132.fASBW2b38866@card.ngfl.gov.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200111281132.fASBW2b38866@card.ngfl.gov.uk>; from dpd@ngfl.gov.uk on Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:32:01AM +0000 X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:32:01AM +0000, David Dooley wrote: > vmnet1: flags=8943 > mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 > ether 00:bd:b5:0e:00:01 > > I am not too sure what the IP address is or where it was gleaned from > because the network I am on, in fact is, 193.63.51.64/26. The IP > address may be a red herring as it would appear that the vmnet and > the host interface are both running in promiscuous mode - > > lnc0: flags=8943 mtu > 1500 > inet 193.63.51.95 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast 193.63.51.127 > ether 00:06:29:50:2f:a6 > > If any one can shed some light on these thoughts and enlighten me I > would be most appreciative. > At vmware build you chose netgraph bridging, and then it ask you for an interface and an ip: you have to give the interface used to access to the lan (lnc0 in your case) and give an FREE ip from your subnet. > In addition to the above, when I try and power on a configured vmware > instance it moans that it cannot access /dev/vmnet0. This would be > true as there is no vmnet0 interface any where on the system that I > can find, but I can find a /compat/linux/dev/vmnet1. Be sure that you chose "host-only" in vmware configuration and not "bridged", even with bridging to have to use "host-only" in vmware. Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message