Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 11:29:46 -0400 From: Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware3 networking confusion... Message-ID: <20070511152946.GH60355@uws1.starlofashions.com> In-Reply-To: <30565.54146.qm@web63011.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <30565.54146.qm@web63011.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 07:55:55AM -0700, Gore Jarold wrote: > Following these instructions: > > http://forums.bsdnexus.com/viewtopic.php?id=1534 Yeah, but those were written by a moron, me. :) > > I have this in my /usr/X11R6/etc/vmware/config file: > > vmnet1.Bridged = "YES" > vmnet1.BridgeInterface = "bge0" > vmnet1.HostOnlyAddress = "192.168.0.90" > vmnet1.HostOnlyNetMask = "255.255.255.0" > > The bottom line is, if I configure my winXP guest to > have IP 192.168.0.90, it complains that that address > is already in use, and I can see it in the winXP arp > table. BUT, I cannot ping it. > > If I give it 192.168.0.91, it isn't on the network. > It can still see .90 (is in the arp table) but it > can't ping it. Try letting it obtain an IP address automatically and see if that works. At present, I don't have a running vmware installation on FreeBSD, so can't doublecheck. > > > > [1] at least, I am fairly certain I installed the port > with bridged networking ... is there any way I can > verify this ? Yes, your config, showing BridgeInterface shows that this is what you did. -- Scott GPG KeyID EB3467D6 ( 1B848 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: I can not stress enough how much I don't have plans.
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