Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1532 mails)

[Erik Jakobsen <erik_ja@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Andersen wrote:
>
>
> Exactly what problems?
>   
Sorry John, I thought I have shown that more up in this thread.
Here the message is:

"The network bridge on device /dev/vmnet0 is temporarily down because
the bridged Ethernet interface is down.  The virtual machine may not be
able to communicate with the host or with other machines on your network."

> Try Nat Ethernet and see if that works for you.
>
>   
Yes, that works.

> You should be able to fire up a virtual machine and change
> its settings to Nat for a test to see if it will work.
>
>   
I now can access for instance the Internet.

> Bridged has the additional requirement of having to alias your
> nic so that it can obtain two IPs on the same network interface.
> I have seen several instances where that would not work, usually
> because the ISP would only allow one IP per nic, but also with
> really cheap routers that had poor dhcp servers. (Some Dlink models).
>
>   
Ok, I cna tell you, that I have not had probs before running with 2 IP's.
But that was when I ran it all via a server. Now I use a Netgear WGR614v6
router. For the LAN, I run fixed IP's, as I also did running the server.
> Then if Nat works we can start working on Bridged.
>
>   

I think the time has come :-)

-- 
Med venlig hilsen / Best regards
Erik Jakobsen
erik_ja@xxxxxxxxxxxx
openSuSE 10.2 (i586)

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