From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Mar 5 19:17:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F20E37B74D for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 19:17:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bts@babbleon.org) Received: from babbleon.org ([66.26.250.181]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Mon, 5 Mar 2001 22:17:40 -0500 Message-ID: <3AA456C7.A00F0358@babbleon.org> Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 22:17:27 -0500 From: The Babbler Organization: None to speak of X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mikko@dynas.se, Barry Lustig Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware networking References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As is frequently the case in such matters, the cause of my difficulty was very simple. I did not have the latest port. The verison matched, but the port *revision* did not match. With the truly latest port, it "just works," as suggested by so many kind correspondents. Thank you one and all. Mikko Työläjärvi wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, The Babbler wrote: > > > Mikko Tyolajarvi wrote: > > > > > > In local.freebsd.emulation you write: > > > > > > >I'm trying to get networking going with vmware under FreeBSD. > > > > > > >I was going to set up host-only networking and use NATD to get to the > > > >Great Wide World under vmware. This is kinda lucky since host-only is > > > >apparently the only sort of networking that vmware supports under > > > >FreeBSD. > > > > > > Last time I installed vmware, one had to have bridging support in the > > > kernel, configure vmware for "host-only" networking, and then it Just > > > Worked(tm) - full network access from vmware after giving the guest OS > > > an IP address on the same subnet as the host OS. You can even use DHCP. > > > > > > The port has since been changed to use netgraph to do the bridging, > > > which I assume should work without building a new kernel. So, it > > > should work out-of-the box, without nat. > > > > Well, it doesn't. Any ideas on where to start? -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" bts@babbleon.org Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message