vmware3 networking confusion...

[Gore Jarold]

Following these instructions:

http://forums.bsdnexus.com/viewtopic.php?id=1534

I have installed vmware with bridged networking, but
have chosen host networking for my VMs [1].

On the host system, I see, with 'ifconfig -a':

bge0:
flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
1500
       
options=1b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
        inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast
192.168.0.255
        ether 00:30:1b:bc:7a:23
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX
<full-duplex>)
        status: active
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu
16384
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
vmnet0:
flags=8842<BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
1500
        ether 00:bd:76:2d:e7:01
vmnet1:
flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
1500
        inet 192.168.0.90 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast
192.168.0.255
        ether 00:bd:97:ab:ac:02
        Opened by PID 23217

I have this in my /usr/X11R6/etc/vmware/config file:

vmnet1.Bridged = "YES"
vmnet1.BridgeInterface = "bge0"
vmnet1.HostOnlyAddress = "192.168.0.90"
vmnet1.HostOnlyNetMask = "255.255.255.0"

The bottom line is, if I configure my winXP guest to
have IP 192.168.0.90, it complains that that address
is already in use, and I can see it in the winXP arp
table.  BUT, I cannot ping it.

If I give it 192.168.0.91, it isn't on the network. 
It can still see .90 (is in the arp table) but it
can't ping it.

What step have I missed in making networking work for
my guest VMs ?  I tried 'kldload bridge.ko' but that
did not help ...

Thanks.


[1] at least, I am fairly certain I installed the port
with bridged networking ... is there any way I can
verify this ?


       
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