FreeBSD on VMware

[Peter Ludikovsky]

Hello,

* What's your host OS?
* How are IP addresses usually assigned?
* Do other machines (physical or virtual) get assigned IP addresses in
your network?

Regards
/peter

On 06/27/2017 01:08 AM, Monah Baki wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a Inspiron 11 3000 series, that has a 802.11n broadcom adapter.
> Running FreeBSD 11 release P9 as a guest on vmware workstation 12.5.7, and
> it detected the interface em0
> 
> If I configure guest freebsd as NAT to used to share the host's IP address,
> my interface gets an IP address via DHCP
> 
> em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
>         ether 00:0c:29:73:3b:d4
>         inet 192.168.60.130 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.60.255
>         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
>         status: active
> 
> 
> If I configure FreeBSD as  Bridged: connected directly to the physical
> network, which is what I want, no IP gets assigned to the interface.
> 
> 
> Any idea why?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Monah
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