Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:02:43 +0200 From: Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: route vmnet1 host server Message-ID: <200410111702.43904.4711@chello.at> In-Reply-To: <200410111637.44760.4711@chello.at> References: <20041010160231.GA836@pooh.nagual.st> <20041011102721.GB8806@nagual.st> <200410111637.44760.4711@chello.at>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 11 October 2004 16:37, Christian Hiris wrote: > On Monday 11 October 2004 12:27, dick hoogendijk wrote: > > The above information says it all, I guess. I was confused, because the > > vmware3 ports speaks of no support for bridging. This must be some other > > kind of bridging ;-) As you tell me, this is a normal story and I don't > > expect to have difficulties with it. > > Yup, you don't need to set gateway_enable="YES" in your rc.conf same with > ipnat, you don't need it. There is one important thing when you start > vmware and set up your virtual machine: > > In the Ethernet Adapters configuration dialog select > Connection Type: --> Custom > Vmnet: --> /dev/vmnet1 What you read about unsupported bridging is related to this. The vmware3 port supports bridging, but you can't use the 'Connection Type Bridged' in the virtual machine setup. However, bridging is supported via 'Connection Type Custom' and 'Vmnet /dev/vmnet1'. This is maybe a little confusing, if you are new to VMware on FreeBSD. - -- Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> | OpenPGP KeyID 0x3BCA53BE OpenPGP-Key at hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net and http://pgp.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBaqCT09WjGjvKU74RAv5QAJ989h9mdPUS+Q7pm4JVyl9ZQrwVJACfejiu davJVxTq/1jv96agSHN4xxQ= =yOPP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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