Host-only with IP-Masquerading or Proxie/firewall on the Linux side. I
believe there is a walkthrough on VMWare's site for getting the IP
Masquerade to work in your situation. You will most likely need DOS drivers
for your network in Win3.1.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin Sher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 4:23 AM
> To: Air-Exp
> Subject: [expert] Linux/VMWare -- "bridge" or "host-only" networking?
>
>
> Dear friends:
>
> This is a footnote to my earlier letter concerning Mandrake
> 7.0, VMware
> 2.0 and Win3.1.
>
> I have a single computer running Linux and a single virtual
> machine with
> Win3.1 on it. I have ADSL broadband (3com ethernet card) and
> I also use
> a U. S. Robotics 56k EXT modem as a backup for the ADSL.
>
> During installation, VMWARE recognized my DHCP protocol and suggested
> bridge network. That's what Settings also showed after installation
> (which was otherwise perfect). At the bottom of the main
> VMware screen I
> see icons for four devices: floppy, hard drive, CD AND ethernet0. The
> floppy icon works when I click on it and the hard drive. The
> CD is of no
> importance at this time. But the ethernet icon does not respond.
>
> BIG QUESTION OF THE DAY:
>
> After reading extensivly on this subject on VMware's support page
> (Documentation, Networking) at:
> http://www.vmware.com/support/linux/doc/networking_linux.html, I can't
> help but wonder if perhaps what I really need is HOST-ONLY NETWORKING
> for the ethernet card. Bellsouth considers me to be on a LAN, and that
> is the way my ADSL was configured from the beginning (first under
> Windows95 and now under Linux). I hope to avoid Win95/98 at
> all costs in
> VMware. My interest is very specific: Windows Media Player 3.0 for
> Win3.1, which is equivalent, I think, to WMP 6.4 for Win96/98. I need
> this for live Russian broadcasting for my colleagues and
> myself, and TV6
> Moscow broadcasts, alas, only on WMP.
>
> What's your opinion, please? Bridge or host-only networking?
>
> Thank you so very much.
>
> Benjamin
>
> --
> Benjamin and Anna Sher
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> http://www.websher.net
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