From owner-freebsd-emulation Sun Mar 4 13:50:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from gate.lustig.com (lustig.ne.mediaone.net [24.91.125.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BD9C437B71A for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 13:50:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from barry@Lustig.COM) Received: (qmail 92762 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2001 21:50:27 -0000 Received: from gate.lustig.com (HELO Lustig.COM) (barry@205.246.2.242) by gate.lustig.com with SMTP; 4 Mar 2001 21:50:27 -0000 Message-ID: <3AA2B8A1.7BE7858A@Lustig.COM> Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 16:50:25 -0500 From: Barry Lustig Reply-To: barry@Lustig.COM Organization: Barry Lustig & Associates, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc Fonvieille Cc: The Babbler , freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware networking References: <3AA1B01B.9F2626D0@babbleon.org> <20010304110515.A862@vobiscum.styx.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Marc Fonvieille wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 10:01:47PM -0500, The Babbler wrote: > > > > 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. > > > [snip] > > > > PS: If nothing else I'm sure I can do the natd route, but I hate to do > > it if it's not really necessary. > > > [snip] > > I spent long time playing with vmware and network, and i never > managed to do networking, with the rest of the world, without using > natd. If someone could show me how to avoid natd, i'm interested too :) > > But i think the natd solution is very easy to deal with, so ... > The current version of vmware2 in /usr/ports gives the option of using netgraph bridging. Just install it with the bridging turned on and set host-only inside of vmware. You'll be able to use an IP address on the LAN you are attached to. No need for NAT'ting. barry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message