Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 06:12:37 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> Cc: The Babbler <bts@babbleon.org>, John Sellens <jsellens@generalconcepts.com>, emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware networking - really sysmouse complaints Message-ID: <3AACD955.28229D4C@elischer.org> References: <200103112208.f2BM88L85365@gc0.generalconcepts.com> <20010311221123.B1541@tao.org.uk> <3AABF9DF.5E3C6E1F@babbleon.org> <20010311222703.C1541@tao.org.uk> <3AAC221F.1731699F@elischer.org> <20010312092438.B1402@tao.org.uk>
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Josef Karthauser wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 05:10:55PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't know if you're using bridging or not... I've had problem today
> > > with vmware and bridging and it was because the external interface (aue0
> > > in my case) wasn't in promiscious mode for some reason! I managed to
> > > fake it by running a 'tcpdump -i aue0' in the background. I'm sure
> > > there's an easier way to put the interface into promiscious mode. I'm
> > > not sure what it is though.
> >
> > ngctl msg aue0: setpromisc 1
>
> Magic ;) In my case it looks like the aue0 wasn't coming up before the
> rc.d/vmware.sh script was setting up the netgraph bits. That's fixed
> now but it's certainly good to know this.
>
> BTW, a number of times I've wanted to back the netgraph config out so I
> assumed that I could do an 'ngctl rmhook nodename' where the nodenames
> come from 'ngctl list'. Although the command doesn't complain it
> doesn't remove the node though. I'm slightly baffled. What's the
> official way?
ngctl shutdown 'xyz0:'
rmnode takes a node name AND a hook name. It just undoes the hook
and will only act to remove the node if it was the last hook.
>
> Joe
>
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