vmware3 networking confusion...

[Scott Robbins]

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 07:55:55AM -0700, Gore Jarold wrote:
> Following these instructions:
> 
> http://forums.bsdnexus.com/viewtopic.php?id=1534

Yeah, but those were written by a moron, me.  :)

> 
> 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.

Try letting it obtain an IP address automatically and see if that works.
At present, I don't have a running vmware installation on FreeBSD, so can't
doublecheck.  
> 
> 
> 
> [1] at least, I am fairly certain I installed the port
> with bridged networking ... is there any way I can
> verify this ?

Yes, your config, showing BridgeInterface shows that this is what you
did. 

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