FreeBSD on VMware

[Eric Wayte]

The issue could be with Windows 10 Home edition as Home does not provide
many of the features of the Pro edition.

On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 7:28 AM, Monah Baki <monahbaki at gmail.com> wrote:

> Host is Windows 10 home edition running the VMWare Workstation
> The only virtual machine is the guest FreeBSD, all my physical machines get
> their IP address via a FIOS verizon router (DHCP)
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 4:34 AM, Peter Ludikovsky <peter at ludikovsky.name>
> wrote:
>
> > 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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Eric Wayte