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Date:      Tue, 27 Jun 2017 10:26:35 -0700
From:      Eric Melville <emelville@anomali.com>
To:        Monah Baki <monahbaki@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on VMware
Message-ID:  <17B544B8-2B4A-4181-AED1-703F9C42E366@anomali.com>
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> If I configure FreeBSD as  Bridged: connected directly to the physical
> network, which is what I want, no IP gets assigned to the interface.
>=20
>=20
> Any idea why?

Wireless is great for laptops but generally wired ethernet works much =
better with VM environments. There are various hacks in certain =
hypervisors, but promiscuous mode on the wire simply works and on top of =
that modern cards have enhancements to further support virtualization.=



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