thanks swap. trick#3 worked for me.
doing tagging on VM just works after telling host OS not to strip the dot1q
packets.
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 5:05 PM, ccie19804_at_gmail.com <ccie19804_at_gmail.com>wrote:
> Did something similar during my security days, check my old post might
> help (workaround 3)
>
> http://7200emu.hacki.at/viewtopic.php?t=1409
>
> Secondly, u r using two VMNet adpaters, not sure how u'll bridge it to one
> Broadcom NIC.
> For such scenarios, I use one single bridged VMNet Adapter (e.g vmnet0)
> for both guest VMs and do the tagging on guest E1000 adapter.
>
> (For routed scenarios, we can enable Windows routing via registry; for
> such scenario multiple VMNet adapters should be used, host OS wil do the
> routing between the VMNets with Host VMNet adapter IP acting as gateway for
> guests)
>
> HTH
>
> cheers
>
> Swap
> #19804
>
>
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>
> On Aug 5, 2012, at 18:42, Radioactive Frog <pbhatkoti_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Folks,
> > Sorry for this very off topic, nothing to do with lab but thought there
> are
> > someone on this list who have spent hours on this :) !
> >
> > I am not a windows expert but just wondering if there is such thing
> called
> > NIC teaming with VLAN trunking support for BCM55xx Eth card.
> > A friend have Dell XPS 8300 with BCM 55xx chipset (broadcom netlink, GE)
> .
> > BASP from broadcom doesn't give an option to create VLANs.
> > the requirement is:
> > 1x GE-PC------dot1q----trunk--------|Switch|-----client1/client2
> >
> > VMware Workstation 8x (not ESXi blown up)
> >
> > assign VMnet1 to vlan10 to VM1
> > assign VMnet2 to vlan 20 to VM2
> >
> > In Linux version of VMworkstation 8.0.4 there is an option (without any
> > BCM/DELL or 3rd party driver) to do this funky thing but I can't see
> > similar thing in Windows.
> >
> > tried:
> > installed , reinstalled BCM, latet driver. According to Dell/broadcom
> > website this version of lan card (Netlink GE) does not support
> VLAN/dot1q.
> > Thats why posted here to see if there is any quarky way to achieve the
> same.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
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