Advanced network settings
Basic setup |
Basic setup - see basic table for reasonable blocks |
ethernet0.present = "false" |
Main-switch: set to "true"
to enable the device. |
ethernet0.startConnected = "true" |
Silently defaults to "true"
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ethernet0.virtualDev
= "vlance" |
On current VMware-versions you can
use any of these 3 |
ethernet0.connectionType = "bridged" ethernet0.connectionType = "hostonly" |
Sets the connection type. |
ethernet0.vnet = "vmnet0" |
Sets the number of the used vmnet. |
ethernet0.addressType
= "generated" |
This lines are added automatically
on first start of a VM. |
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This settings have to be used to
configure a |
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ethernet0.ignoreMACAddressConflict = "false" |
I think this is another silent default - usually a Nic will not come up if the same Mac exists on the network. |
ethernet0.noPromisc = "true" |
This disables - well have a guess
- yes , this disables promiscous-mode. |
ethernet0.noForgedSrcAddr = "true" |
This disables spoofing of Mac-address |
ethernet0.reassignMAConResume = "true" |
I guess this is another silent default - usually VMware tries to assign the same MAC after resume as it was used before resume. |
ethernet0.checkMACAddress = "FALSE" |
ESX and WS 6.5 - allows to set a MAC outside the usual range (experimental) |
ethernet0.downWhenAddrMismatch = "false" |
see knowledgebase |
ethernet0.allowGuestConnectionControl = "false" |
Disallow control of connection from
inside the guest. |
ethernet0.disableMorphToVmxnet = "false" |
Vlance-nics magically morph to VMXnet
nics after tools-install. |
ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "false" |
Workstation 6 and higher only |
ethernet0.devName
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ESX - specific ? |
WARNING: don't use this unless you kow what you are doing |
ethernet0.numRecvBuffers |
Fine-tuning: don't ask me |
ethernet0.features ="0" |
Do you get poor UDP-performance with vmxnet-device ? Try this - see forumpost May speed up performance when running ghost ... |
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ON 64-bit hosts VMware likes to assign E1000 - but you can force it to use different adapters by useing this lines along with the appropriate virtualDev-entries. |
ethernet0.opromsize = ? |
Boot ROM size - don't know details |
ethernet0.features = "0x2" |
Enable TCP Segmentation Offloading (TSO) for a Windows virtual machine on ESX 2.x Reference: knowledgebase 1465 |
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vlance.noOprom = "true" vmxnet.noOprom = "true" |
Recent VMware-versions allow Network-boot.
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ethernet.e1000.available
= "true" |
Don't use |
vnet.dontProbe = "false" |
Sometimes Windows-guests have problems
to probe the
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