[PLUG] RE: plug Digest, Vol 28, Issue 34

[jadoba@jadoba.net]

I just finished installing and testing a VMware image with two nics on
the host bridged to two virtual nics in the guest. I am using vmware
server (newest version). the host is debian etch and the guest is
sarge.

The host's eth0 is hooked into my d-link router (only temporarily) which
is connected to the Internet. eth1 is hooked into a switch, which also
has another machine connected to it. eth0 on the host is bridged to
/dev/vmnet0 and eth1 is bridged to /dev/vmnet2 (i did this when I ran
vmware-config.pl after installing vmware server)

Before installing sarge, I opened up Virtual Machine Settings in vmware
server and set "Ethernet 1" to custom, pointed it to /dev/vmnet0 and
set "Ethernet 2" to custom, pointing it to /dev/vmnet2

After installing sarge, editing /etc/network/interfaces to my liking and
running an appropriate iptables shell script, the virtual machine is now
a NAT router. I am successfully sending this message from the other
machine hooked into eth1 through the switch. In my virtual machine's
.vmx I see these four lines:

Ethernet0.connectionType = "custom"
Ethernet0.vmnet = "/dev/vmnet0"
Ethernet1.connectionType = "custom"
Ethernet1.vmnet = "/dev/vmnet2"

Also, in case you're wondering, I plan on plugging eth0 directly into my
cable modem and setting this up as a router appliance.

HTH (if not, my guess is you probably have a routing issue)

-jim

> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:59:16 -0400
> From: "Lee Fisher" 
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Debian Virtual Machine with dual NICs?
> To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List"
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> I am also running under VMWare.
> Lee
> 
> 
> On 3/23/07, K.S. Bhaskar  wrote:
> >
> > A virtual machine under VMware, QEMU, or ...?  It probably makes a
> > difference.
> >
> > I have had little success creating virtual machines with VMware that
> > have two NICs.  So, I'll be watching responses.
> >
> > -- Bhaskar
> >
> > On 3/23/07, Lee Fisher  wrote:
> > > Has anyone done anything with running Debian as a virtual machine
> with
> > Dual
> > > NICs?
> > >
> > > We have a machine running redhat which has multiple network cards.
>  Both
> > > cards are working fine on that machine.  On that machine we are
> running
> > a
> > > virtual machine with Debian.  On that machine we also want it to
have
> > too
> > > network interfaces, an internal interface and an external one
> going to
> > our
> > > DMZ.  So far we've gotten the internal one to work, but aren't
> able to
> > > access anything or even visibly see an IP address for the other
> > NIC.  Let me
> > > know if you have any ideas of what to look at to analyze this.
> > > Thanks,
> > > Lee

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