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3 Replies Last post: Jan 22, 2008 11:19 PM by halcyonic  

bridged mode network ip routing question posted: Jan 21, 2008 11:34 PM

Click to view halcyonic's profile Novice 5 posts since
Dec 11, 2007
I'm running a virtual machine under Fusion (1.1) in bridged mode on my macbook pro running Leopard. I connect to the internet through my wireless connection. I need to connect to a server via the wired connection. The wired connection is on the 192.168.2.x subnet, and the wireless connection is on the 192.168.1.x subnet.

Here's the question: I have an application that needs to communicate with the server on the 192.168.2.x subnet (at 192.168.2.2, specifically). If I turn off the wireless connection, it works fine. However, when I turn on the wireless connection, it stops working (and when I look at network traces, all the packets start going out on the wireless interface).

I'm confused as to why this is happening as when I run "route get 192.168.2.2", the interface it reports for the route is the wired interface (which is where the packets should be going but aren't). Does Fusion automatically send out VM packets on whatever interface it thinks is connected to the internet? Is there a way to control routing of packets originating from the VM?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Nick

Re: bridged mode network ip routing question

1. Jan 22, 2008 6:21 AM in response to: halcyonic
Click to view Silica V's profile Hot Shot 190 posts since
Oct 30, 2007
Change the priority of the network interface in Mac OS and see.

Re: bridged mode network ip routing question

2. Jan 22, 2008 6:28 AM in response to: halcyonic
Click to view etung's profile Guru 11,094 posts since
Oct 15, 2006
By default, Fusion uses whichever interface OS X tells it is the primary one. You can tell it to always use the same interface by editing /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/boot.sh, or by using How to modify Fusion network settings whitepaper (instructions for manual configuration) or Scripts to manage Fusion network settings (script to do the configuration for you).

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