I have two Ethernet adapters in my host RHEL4 Linux box. Eth0 is the main connection and is bridged to vmnet0 in the vmware-config.pl for all the bridged guests, that works fine.
I have a seperate eth1 card installed in the host that is connected to a span port on my switch to allow traffic sniffing. Its configured in vmware-config.pl to bridge with vmnet2 and on the host I can sniff traffic and use tcpdump -i eth1 and vmnet-sniffer /dev/vmnet2 to see that traffic is passing on this interface and the bridge.
However in any guest OS that I attach the second custom defined Ethernet to vmnet2 I cannot see any traffic except a few broadcast packets.
Something is being lost in vmware server somewhere. Im running 1.0.1 of the free server.
I have tried guests of windows and linux but neither can see data from the eth1/vmnet2 interface
Any ideas?
Dave P
University of Utah