On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 04:53:10PM +0000, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:

> Hi,

Hi,


> I'm trying to bridge two ethernets, which ought to be pretty basic. The
> one oddity is that the Linux box I'm using to do it (rocky) is running
> under VMWare 3.0 on a Win2K box (sandy),   [snip]
>
> When I generate some traffic from sandy destined for rocky, everything 
> works fine and "brctl showmacs br0" shows sandy's MAC address on port 2. 
> However, when I try to generate traffic from sandy destined for another 
> host on the network, "brctl showmacs br0" shows sandy's MAC address on 
> port 1, and the return traffic doesn't get to it (predictably enough). 

So the problem is that your Win2K machine cuts itself off from its local
network when you start VMWare?  Sorry, but I really don't know what could
be the problem there.  Unless I misunderstand you of course.


cheers,
Lennert
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