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Date:      Wed, 6 Sep 2000 07:13:25 -0700
From:      "Vladimir Silyaev" <vsilyaev@mindspring.com>
To:        "Michael Harnois" <mdharnois@home.com>
Cc:        "Brian Beattie" <beattie@beattie-home.net>, <emulation@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: vmware2 networking question
Message-ID:  <000501c0180c$a0431940$e40ffea9@vt.ny.us>
References:  <000501c017a3$b1995ce0$e40ffea9@vt.ny.us> <86lmx6yyzq.fsf@mharnois.workgroup.net>

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Ok. But those problem doesn't caused by vmware/vmnet, isn't it?

I knew that such configuration works for some network cards/network drivers,
in rest cases the network drivers and/or FreeBSD BRIDGE code should be
fixed.

Vladimir

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Harnois <mdharnois@home.com>
To: Vladimir Silyaev <vsilyaev@mindspring.com>
Cc: Brian Beattie <beattie@beattie-home.net>; <emulation@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: vmware2 networking question


> On Tue, 5 Sep 2000 18:42:17 -0700, "Vladimir Silyaev"
<vsilyaev@mindspring.com> said:
>
>     > You have just enable 'option BRIDGE' in your kernel. And after
>     > that your 'hostonly' networking in VMware guest becoming really
>     > bridged.
>
> Except it doesn't work. Perhaps it works for you, but vmware2
> networking on my machine stops working entirely until I disable the
> bridge. In addition, having bridging enabled causes loops in the
> bridge topology when one has more than one ethernet card in the
> machine.
>
> --
> Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA
> mdharnois@home.com                      aa0bt@aa0bt.ampr.org
>  The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
>  The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
>   -- Niels Bohr



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