On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 01:47:17PM -0600, Guy Harris wrote:
>
> I also don't have a Windows 9x machine (I guess I could try it inside
> VMware, but so far my VMware experiences haven't been all that
> wonderful, and I haven't yet figured out whether I have to give my
> machine's Ethernet interface multiple IP addresses in order to make
> networking work inside VMware or if the VMware interfaces handle that),
> so I don't know what the way to do that on W9x is.
Really? I'm running multiple VM instances purty easily.
VMWare takes care of it.
You can set up network in VMWare 2 different ways. The way I use it puts
my physical machine's NIC in promiscuous mode, and VMWare runs a
user-space "ethernet bridge" program. This does not give another IP
address to your physical machine's ethernet interface.
The other way is to keep your NIC from always being in promiscuous mode,
but then the virtual machine can only talk to other virtual machines
inside the same physical machine, or to the physical machine itself.
Your physical machine could then do IP routing or run some sort
of proxy (SOCKS proxy, e.g.) to let your virtual machine get out onto
the wire. I suppose in this way you might have another IP address
on your ethernet NIC, i.e., and "eth0:1" interface in the Linux world, but
I would assume that VMware takes care of that.
--gilbert