Remember that you need to put the ports on the vmware switch into promiscuous mode. --joubert On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Elias Chatzigeorgiou <echatzigeorgiou@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > I tried to setup a bridge in a (debian-based) virtual machine using esx > server. I added two nics on my vm connected then in two different networks > and used the bridge utility (brctl) to bridge them. I gave the bridge an ip > address so that it would be visible from the network. > > I can access both networks from that vm, and machines on both networks can > access the vm. > > BUT PACKETS from net1 do not reach net2 and vise-versa. > > I have no ip/ebtable rules and /proc/sys/net/bridge/* files are set to zero. > > As a last check, I used tcpdump to dump packets comming from e.g. the net1 > to the attached nic (eth0) and they seem to reach only if eth0 is not part > of the bridge. > > PLEASE ADVISE. > > Thanks > Elias Chatzigeorgiou > > _______________________________________________ > Bridge mailing list > Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge > _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
