On 12/27/2009 12:10 AM, Len Conrad wrote:

VMWare has lots of info how to set up the (Windows XP) VMWare Workstation 
networking side, but not much on setting up networking in the guest OS.

I've tried NAT and bridging, no DHCP, and can't ping anything except the 
localhost IPs.

XP ipconfig shows the fixed IP, plus 2 192.168.c.d IPs from VMnet1 and VMnet8.

I'm sure this is really simple, but my experimentation has come up with zilch.

Take a look here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html

The guest OS will have an em0 interface which is connected to
a host interface VMnet1, VMnet8 or similar. Actually the guest's
networking configuration is simpler than the host's one. You should
configure the em interface with an appropriate IP address:
1) Bridging: WinXP fixed IP and FreeBSD fixed IP
        for example, WinXP 192.168.10.100 and FreeBSD 192.168.10.101

2) host to host: WinXP 192.168.c.d and FreeBSD 192.168.c.x
        for example, WinXP 192.168.20.100 and FreeBSD 192.168.20.101

3) NAT: WinXP 192.168.e.d and FreeBSD 192.168.e.x
        for example, WinXP 192.168.30.100 and FreeBSD 192.168.30.101

Keep in mind that using DHCP is much more easy as you don't have to
search for the appropriate address yourself, the VMware's DHCP server
will offer it. Using DHCP from the FreeBSD side is as easy as typing
"dhclient em0".

HTH, Nikos
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