Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:41:19 -0700 (PDT) From: afiddler10 <afiddler10@yahoo.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Two questions Message-ID: <93190.40330.qm@web31603.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Yesterday I received some very helpful advice from your technician.=A0 I ho= pe you can answer these two questions today! =A0 I am trying to configure Freebsd so that I can access it from my host PC, w= hich is Windows 7.=A0 Yesterday the technician told me to configure bridgin= g in VMware when I created the virtual Freebsd server.=A0 This worked fine,= but I'm wondering if there is a way to configure this outside of VMware.= =A0 I tried this on a Freebsd v8.2: =A0 ifconfig bridge create ifconfig bridge0 addm em0 addm em1 up=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 #interf= ace names are em0 and em1 =A0 But it did not work.=A0 I assigned an IP address to em0 but could not acces= s it from my Windows 7 host, although I could ping that address from the vi= rtual server (TCP/IP stack was working).=A0 Is there something else I need = to do to get this to work? =A0 My second question is that this command is not in an older version of Freeb= sd that I am using, v4.11.=A0 Do you have other commands to create a bridge= d interface on this version? =A0 Thanks for your help!
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?93190.40330.qm>