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Re: VLAN Bridging - MAC OSX and VMWare Fusion

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Hi there!

For what you've described, you're trying to accomplish a ESXi type configuration on Fusion...

 

Anyway, I don't think that the network interface on Fusion is comparable to a vSwitch in ESXi, or has any do1q capabilities. I would compare Fusion Network (VMNET) more to a Hub.

 

But tagged traffic is like any other traffic (but tagged) and should pass to Mac Host through a bridge interface. So, my proposed would be to configure VLAN virtual interfaces on OSX side, and bridge them to the physical interface used by VMGuest configuration.

 

VMGuest (tagged) --> VMNet Bridge (tagged) --> OSX interface (tagged) --> OSX dot1q bridge (tagged)--> OSX VLAN virtual interface (untagged)

 

Another solution would be to use a second VMGuest, assign several interfaces (one for each VLAN plus one more for receiving tagged packets).

 

VMGuest (tagged) --> VMNet interface (tagged) --> (nic1=tagged) second VMGuest (nic2 = untagged) --> OSX interface

 

For creating more VMNet interfaces in Fusion 5 you must go to Settings->Network

For Fusion 4, it's a command line job. But you can find several references about howto on google.

 

I hope this helps...


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